River of Grass has all the elements of a conventional road movie: a car, a gun, criminal plans, and young lovers on the run from an angry father who also happens to be a suspended police officer. But writer and director Kelly Reichardt has instead taken these familiar elements and fashioned an anti-road movie, a deadpan film that is more existentialist comedy than crime drama. The young lovers in question are Cozy, the cop's daughter, and Lee Ray, a shady character from the wrong end of town. Lee Ray comes into possession of a pistol, and soon he and Cozy find themselves unintentionally involved in a shooting. Fearing capture by the law, the two make plans to leave town, committing a series of robberies on the way. However, they don't manage to get very far; indeed, the film's central premise is how the romantic myth of lovers on the lam proves disappointing in the face of a far more pedestrian reality. This well-received, low-budget indie was shot on location in South Florida, placing its story against an appropriately depressed landscape of sun-bleached strip malls, barren highways and overgrown, swampy fields; the title is another name for the Florida Everglades. 为: 《草河》具备了公路片的所有典型元素:一辆车、一把枪、犯罪计划,以及一对逃离愤怒父亲的年轻恋人——这位父亲恰好是被停职的警察。但编剧兼导演凯莉·雷查德特却用这些熟悉元素打造出了一部反公路片,一部比犯罪剧更富存在主义喜剧色彩的冷面电影。这对年轻恋人便是警官的女儿考兹与来自城中阴暗角落的可疑人物李·雷。李·雷意外获得一把手枪,很快他和考兹就无意间卷入了一场枪击事件。担心被警方逮捕,两人计划逃离小镇,在途中实施了一系列抢劫。然而他们并未能远行;事实上,影片的核心设定正是这对逃亡恋人如何被更为平淡无奇的现实所破灭——浪漫逃亡神话终成泡影。这部广受好评的低成本独立电影在佛罗里达南部实地取景,将故事置于一片恰如其分的萧瑟景象之中:褪色的连锁商店、荒芜的公路、杂草丛生的沼泽田野——片名正是佛罗里达大沼泽的别称。