Kerb Crawlers

Everyone knows you need a car to get around L.A. It is, after all, a so-called “driving city.” But some L.A.-based films yank their protagonists from their cars and push them into the great unknown. Severed from an infrastructure's theoretical efficiency, these characters are isolated, unstable, unsure. They don't know where they're going, both literally and figuratively. Walking in a city of drivers becomes a means for them to begin their journeys toward something resembling clarity, if not peace.

Keywords: Andrew Garfield ; Ben Stiller ; David Lynch ; David Robert Mitchell ; film ; freeways ; Greenberg ; Greta Gerwig ; Mulholland Drive ; Naomi Watts ; Noah Baumbach ; Under the Silver Lake ; wandering