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Added image, cleanup. This film isn't mumblecore in the slightest.
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Gerry tells the story of Gerry and Gerry who go hiking in New Mexico to see "the thing" at the end of the trail. Eventually they get lost.
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Inbetween those two points... well, this film is a minimalist as a film could possibly get, having limited dialogue, a bare-bones plot and a cast of two, [[Matt Damon]] and Casey Affleck.
▲The film is the first of the ''Death Trilogy'' by Gus Van Sant (the second film being ''[[Elephant]]'') and roughly based on the true story of David Coughlin and Raffi Kodikian.
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* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: {{spoiler|Gerry (Affleck) gets killed by Gerry, who finds the road and gets picked up by a car and survives.}}
* [[Character Title]]: "Gerry" is also a slang term that the actors used (who helped write it) as a term for "screwing up".
* [[Gallows Humor]]: As Gerry and Gerry lay down in the middle of nowhere, about to die
{{quote|"How do you think the hike is going so far?"}}
* [[Mercy Kill]]: {{spoiler|At the end Gerry (Damon) kills the other Gerry so he doesn't have to die of dehydration}}.
* [[Minimalism]]
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* [[Scenery Porn]]: Lots and lots of gorgeous mountains.
* [[Silence Is Golden]]: There is some dialogue, a lot of it with swearing, but there is almost no soundtrack.
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{{quote|"[[wikipedia:I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)|But I would walk 500 miles]], [[Brows Held High|And I would walk 500 more...]]"}}
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[[Category:Films of the 2000s]]
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