The Car, Time, and Space

The thing I retained the most about the documentary was the format. There's something to be said about a large portion of the film taking place in a car. And the backseat of the car for that matter. I found the film quite disorienting--usually a car is used to take a person from point A to point B. Rather, the car was used to explore notions of time and space (we traveled back to Gibson's adolescent life and we also went to the east coast, the west coast, the woods, the city, etc.) The fact that we (the viewer and Gibson) use a relatively primitive vehicle to do this is interesting. Of course it would have been really corny to have Gibson in a simulated spaceship or time machine or something like that but I thought the car in relationship to time communicated well the idea that our notions of the future, progess, and technology are founded upon former advancements making the Future very possible and real. Also, the filmmaker could of had Gibson driving in the front of the car or in the passenger's seat but having him in the backseat said that technology will happen to us even though we often think of it as the other way around.