Minute 9
By Nicholas Rombes. Gerry, directed by Gus Van Sant, 2002. "Well how far’s the thing?" Casey Affleck Gerry asks. "Let’s go this way man," Matt Damon Gerry replies. "Everything’s gonna go to the thing, everything’s gonna lead to the same place." So begins the first dialogue in Gerry, a full nine minutes into the film, as the two Gerrys ditch the trail and instead head out into the desert itself. Which is to say, life itself. Maybe. Probably. The thing that awaits us all at...