A very realistic start where we see a bank employee carefully steal $650,000 and later turn himself in - without the money. His plan was to slip the money to a fellow employee, serve an anticipated three and a half years in jail and then split the hidden money with his accomplice. We might expect this plan to get uglier than anticipated - and it does, as a leader of the inmates threatens to kill him if he doesn't arrange to funnel some of the missing loot into the other prisoner's account. The bulk of the loot gets hidden under a rock in a remote rural location. But then the story takes a left turn where the two protagonists at different times are drawn iinto a a film crew and locals in the countryside trying to record independent forces of nature. Where time seemed like everythng before it is almost nothing for a while as we are captive to a long unplanned experience, including relationships with a local woman. The movie takes much of its three hour running time to immerse us in this unstructured world where the acting and the setting rather than the plot keep us engaged. The film juxtaposes the necessary rigid struggles of living and working in the city versus living more freely among the elements. As nice as the latter sounds, it would take money for the two main characters to find eventual freedom - and the money was not theirs and they were not heroes. A pervasive blues record that gets played here and there tells it like it is.
Review of The Delinquents
