Straight's Story
I think that the road in Straight's story is different because of the people he meets. Also it is a rural road and this is different in terms of the roads we have seen in other movies. Alvin is country-folk and he is traveling on a road through other small towns in the midwest. This is unlike other movies that we have seen because in many cases the characters are city-folk traveling through rural country. So essentially what we are seeing in Straight's Story is the same type of people meeting on the road. Everyone that he meets on the road understands his way of life and he understands them. Also as he is traveling he ends up meeting people who are curious about where he is going and why. We start to find out a little bit of the background about Alvin and the places he has been in life. He's able to use his life experiences to explain things to other people. He has this quality about him that makes the people he meets drawn to him and they genuinely like him. In the other road movies that we have seen, the characters are usually likeable enough but they always seem to have qualities that turn people off as well. Alvin really doesn't have that quality about him and I think the reason for this is because the people he meets can relate to the things that he's been through because they are all from the same background.