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There aren’t many of us
who are given the chance to experience life and death all in one day,
and never is it so eloquently described by any normal person. Life and
death is a systematic task that spares nothing and leaves us to ponder
our own mortality. Based on the one act play, “Love and Roadkill” is the
two actor melodrama that prefers to teach us about the bond death can
bring to some people. Joyce is a very uptight Manhattanite who one day
is stranded on the side of the road. By her luck, she comes in contact
with a pick up truck with a man that so happens to pick up road kill.
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A few
minutes in touch with him and her guard is soon relinquished
once he begins waxing poetic about the preciousness of life
and this leads to an impromptu friendship between a man that
deals with death a woman so sheltered, she can barely look
at a dead deer on the side of a road. The themes dealt with
reflect on the small relationship Joyce builds with trucker
Eddie, both of whom still stuck on their reservations and
judgments that they built upon their first meeting and this
inspires a breaking down of negative feelings to blossom a
more trusting and potentially beneficial relationship.
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The
entire respective cast provides great performances particularly
Eddie Camp who is strong as the shifty trucker who not only is
forced with the task of helping Joyce to trust him, but the audience
as well. “Love and Roadkill” is a great glimpse at two ships passing
through the night finding mutual respect amidst life and death.
With great acting all around, "Love and Roadkill" is an unusual look at
the preciousness of life and the cold reality of death which director
Allen handles with finesse and a great formula of existentialism and
dramatic tension.
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