Allie Stough Paris, Texas

We see several different examples of communication in the movie. The picture is not over exposed. We see a desert, hawk, the first sign of communication, and a man, named Travis, with water. Travis has a red hat. There are rocks that are falling apart. Travis' life is a mess. He has come into town. Walt, Travis' brother, took him in because he looked disheveled and tired. Travis left his house. Travis has to be traveling near civilization because there are power lines and mountains. Travis walks along the power lines and not the road. Walt stops in a car to get Travis and there are rough mountains behind Travis. His live is crazy. There are smooth mountains behind Walt. He life is intact. We see several different kinds of communication: road line, power line, train line. Travis starts to walk along the train line. We see different angels of travel in this shot. We see shoes and airplanes: more communication. Travis sees a super highway that has trucks on it that he has never seen before. Travis sees his son. His son asks him where he was all the time he was gone. He walks in the city at night over the freeway and we hear Mexican music. He walks over a bridge and passes a man who is "crazy." He doesn't walk with the traffic; he walks perpendicular to it. It takes him two minutes to walk across the bridge. There is suspense because we don't see the man until the last possible moment. The man is preaching to whom ever about the doom of the world. Travis touches the man to try to give him some peace. He is in a brothel and the woman cant see him. He has found his wife but he doesn't tell her its him. They have separated earlier in life. Something happened between them that we never know about. They use a phone to talk to each other. Another form of communication. Even though they are next to each other they fell they have to put on fake fronts. The second time they talk to each other he faces the other way. He tells his story and as he goes on he recognizes his story and realizes it is him. He turns his chair around. She is ashamed and then she turns her back to him.