In director Ridley Scott's great feminist road film:
the scene in the parking lot outside a roadside
honky-tonk bar when hardened waitress Louise (Oscar-nominated Susan
Sarandon), with her unhappy Arkansas housewife friend Thelma (Oscar-nominated
Geena Davis), avenged and retaliated for Thelma's near rape by
her slimy local redneck dance partner Harlan (Timothy Carhart)
(who had taunted her "Suck my c--k"); Louise shot and
killed him: ("It looks like you've got a real f--ked up idea
of fun")
the fugitives' liberating drive to Mexico, through
Utah's Monument Valley as part of their four-day odyssey
Thelma's encounter in motel room 133 with hitchhiker
and petty thief hunk J.D. (Brad Pitt) - who was first viewed in the
rear-view mirror, and later displayed how to use a gun (with a hair-dryer)
the scene of the two female fugitives as they tormented
a leering, repulsive truck driver with a wiggling tongue when they
shot out his tires and then blew up his gas truck for not apologizing
- (his reaction: "Goddamn it, you bitches from hell!")
the bittersweet ending with its soaring freeze-frame
finale when the road-movie buddies - after their flight across the
Southwest to Mexico from cop Hal (Harvey Keitel) - drove their 1966
Ford Thunderbird convertible off a Grand Canyon cliff toward ultimate
freedom while holding hands after Thelma urged: "Let's just
go for it"