Passenger Side is a story about brothers, and the strange, complex bonds that are created when opposites are bound together by life, family and blood. It is also about different ways that a life can be lived: from the supposed safety of the sidelines, or deep in the middle of the mess, and about the benefits and costs of those positions. Finally, it is about how difficult it is for people to change, and how those hard fought for changes can, in the end, produce completely unforeseen results.
The movie is set in Los Angeles, a city where you can see some very strange sights and some very beautiful things. It’s also a city that is made for the automobile, and a good deal of the film takes place in Michael’s beat 1975 BMW, as the brothers’ quest takes them from place to place. In the first scene Michael drops a mixed tape into an old cassette player, and from then on music plays, and in this way the film is very much a rock music road movie, and could be explained as a mix of Two-Lane Blacktop, My Dinner with Andre, Gerry and American Graffiti.
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