Taste of cinema's list description: "The theme of the journey," Federico Fellini once stated in an interview, "is one of the great foundations of the art of narration." This idea proves true in road films, both literally and figuratively. Movies that emphasize both an inward and outward journey, on a conscious level, constitute a genre in which people travel, often to escape, vacation, see something new, have an adventure, or satisfy their own wanderlust.
While films have portrayed these wanderings for little over a century, the concept has been in literature for millennia. What is The Odyssey if not an Ancient Greek version of the modern-day road trip? Some might wonder whether such a journey must entail an actual road, or in modern times, a car...
