River of Grass has all the elements of a conventional road movie: a car, a gun, criminal plans, and young lovers on the run from an angry father who also happens to be a suspended police officer. But writer and director Kelly Reichardt has instead taken these familiar elements and fashioned an anti-road movie, a deadpan film that is more existentialist comedy than crime drama. The young lovers in question are Cozy, the cop's daughter, and Lee Ray, a shady character from the wrong end of town. Lee Ray comes into possession of a pistol, and soon he and Cozy find themselves unintentionally involved in a shooting. Fearing capture by the law, the two make plans to leave town, committing a series of robberies on the way. However, they don't manage to get very far indeed, the film's central premise is how the romantic myth of lovers on the lam proves disappointing in the face of a far more pedestrian reality. This well-received, low-budget indie was shot on location in South Florida, placing its story against an appropriately depressed landscape of sun-bleached strip malls, barren highways and overgrown, swampy fields the title is another name for the Florida Everglades.
2021/1/22；2022/6/28 处女作从仿讽公路类型片开始。直到结尾那一枪之前，“亡命鸳鸯”子类型的三大元素——犯罪（不足为道的罪行）、爱情（基本无爱，性张力只在泳池共举枪的一刻）、上路（因为没有25美分而被收费站拦下，最终没有逃出Dade县）——全被破解了。Reichardt的幽默与讽刺，不拍喜剧片亏了。
很粗糙，還有點生硬，但吸引你一直看下去，很喜歡。整個片的立足點就是最尾那句「if we weren't killers, we weren't anything」.
莱卡特的处女作，随意散漫又灵气四溢，幽默反套路的公路片（男主角用枪打死了汽车旅馆的蟑螂还吓得尿了，女主角偷了一堆黑胶唱片想换钱结果卖不出去哈哈哈哈），完全满足了我的90’s情结，看完像听了一遍碎瓜的那首《1979》。
自述性的旁白，加上有些虚无的公路逃亡，不管是女性还是男性，都没法脱离。
结尾加一星