Deep Sh*t, Arkansas

LOUISE: No, I'm out of town. I'm in...I'm in real deep sh*t, Jimmy. Deep sh*t, Arkansas."

Thelma and Louise starts out in Arkansas in the summer of 1990—though the Arkansas parts were filmed mostly in LA—before following the girls on a road trip through Oklahoma and Colorado to Arizona—though the Arizona parts were filmed in Utah. One thing we've learned from Thelma and Louise is that it's easy to make one place look like another. But that's beside the point.

Thelma and Louise are first both seen in domesticated spaces. Domestic means related to running a home or to family relations and comes from the Latin word domus which means house and kind of sounds like a word we like to use for Darryl. Louise is waiting on tables in a diner, and Thelma is decked out in a bathrobe, asking her hubby what he wants for supper.

It's the '66 Thunderbird that transports them from their domestic spaces to an Arkansas roadside bar and a dark parking lot, and then we're off from motel to motel, gas station to gas station, until we find ourselves fully in the wilderness of Utah—err, Arizona, where literally no "domestic space" can be seen. In fact, there isn't even a roof over their heads in their car.

Thelma and Louise are literally driven to the edge of a cliff, yes, but they're also driven to the edge of freedom. The edge of freedom could be a memoir title for your escaped hamster on the windowsill, but when we say it, we mean these two have reached the end of their escape from what feminism likes to call the patriarchy, and now they're gonna have to face those dudes and their flawed justice system head on. Or not.