Thelma & Louise Themes

Thelma and Louise. The title is enough to clue us in that this movie is going to center on the friendship between two people. What happens to these women's' relationship once they step into that '6...

As soon as Thelma and Louise are free from their regular, daily lives of waitressing and housewife-ing, they are—in Louise's words—finally free to express themselves. What does that mean? It me...

Okay, so if someone asks you to define criminality, you probably start thinking something like, "It's stuff that's against the law." Right? According to U.S. law, for example, Louise has committed...

Freedom and confinement are like the opposite thematic poles of Thelma and Louise. On the one hand, our girls aren't quite "free" in their lives at the start of the film. Thelma is bound to her hou...