Louise Sawyer and Thelma Dickinson are aspects of female escapism, an urgent undercurrent in American society that seems to cultivate a mostly unfulfilled yearning for women to run away from the boredom and sexual entrapment to which they are condemned.” (Johnson, “Bacchantes at Large” The Many Faces of Thelma and Louise) How is the female escape shown in Thelma and Louise? What parts of the film demonstrate the ways in which Thelma and Louise are “…showed first 75 words of 494 total…

…showed last 75 words of 494 total…never the initiators in life. At the same time the man being an actor, assumes that they are always the perpetrators, and as a result a women response just adds more to the entire lie. In Thelma and Louise, they take the men's role, they are able to be macho, and forceful, and not think about the consequences. But the point is that this is all a reaction to what they did through impulsive behavior.