The Wages of Fear (1953)
IMDB #173 [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046268/]
The Gist:
Former grand prize winner at the Cannes film festival, Wages of Fear is a taut film full of desperation, the grit of survival, the evils of poverty, the corruption of man... Okay the film is about of lot shit, which is probably why it has a pretty slow build up to the film's incredibly tense situation: driving trucks full of unstable nitroglycerin through 300 miles of dirt roads. It's also probably why the director, who is French of course, goes with the "the world is shit, and even when you think it's okay it turns out you were wrong because the world is shit my friend" sort of ironic ending. The ending actually diminishes the film a little, mostly because it's predictable and ignores the contrast of highs and lows in life just to make a point. But the rest of the film is so good it hardly matters.
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