Human High

At the end of the film, we see a dramatization of the tragic point when Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow found themselves caught in a cross-fire trap involving the American police.

There is some (albeit sentimental) speculation that Bonnie intentionally had Clyde drive her to a point in the road where cops may have been lurking, since she suspected for some time that the cops were hot on their trail and wanted to go out in a proverbial 'blaze of glory.'

This 'revisionist' interpretation of the depiction of the historic events at least suggests that part of the general allure of this finely-crafted Arthur Penn film is that it invites history scholar/fan appraisal of the 'human creativity' associated with the poignancy of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow (as any good film should!).

That's why this 'pseudo-romance' film stirs my interest in other consciousness-inquiry films such as Kramer vs. Kramer.


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BONNIE: We should die in a flurry of bullets!
CLYDE: Well, let's hope at least we live forever.
BONNIE: The cops always catch the 'rabbits.'
CLYDE: We just may be able to retire comfortably.
BONNIE: Forget it, we're outlaws.
CLYDE: That's why they make movies!

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Kramer vs. Kramer:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kramer_vs._Kramer