Freeway II: Confessions of a Trickbaby
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| Freeway II: Confessions of a Trickbaby | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Matthew Bright |
| Produced by | Brad Wyman |
| Written by | Matthew Bright |
| Music by | Louise Post Kennard Ramsey |
| Cinematography | Joel Ransom |
| Editing by | Suzanne Hines |
| Distributed by | Full Moon Entertainment Trick Productions Inc. |
| Running time | 97 min |
| Country | USA |
| Preceded by | Freeway |
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Freeway II: Confessions of a Trickbaby is a 1999 crime thriller, directed by Matthew Bright and produced by Brad Wyman.
It stars Natasha Lyonne as Crystal, known as "White Girl", a career criminal, who makes money by posing as a prostitute and then robbing her would-be client.
[edit] Plot Summary
Crystal "White Girl" Van Meter is sentenced to 25 years for her crimes. In a minimum security hospital, she teams up with Angela "Cyclona" Garcia and escapes. Cyclona is convinced her beloved Sister Gomez can help "White Girl" with her eating disorder and they head to Tijuana. On the way Cyclona murders a family and has sex with the dead bodies. "White Girl" is not happy that Cyclona has stopped taking her meds and insists she continue to take occasional doses should they continue together. They steal the family's car and make their way south. On the way, Cyclona reveals how Sister Gomez saved her from being molested by her father and possibly aliens. After drinking one to many beers and huffing some paint, they crash and fall down a hill laughing. They catch a ride on a freight train only to be assulted by a crack addict. Cyclona kills him to protect White Girl, and the two make off with his bag of crack and guns. Venturing into the woods, they leave a trail of crack which is picked away by shady men with crow feathers on their hats. Lost and confused, they make it to the border only to have a stand-off with customs officials, both of whom Cyclona kills. "White Girl" violently pistol-whips Cyclona and after making her point, the two race to the suburbs of Tijuana.
In Tijuana, Crystal/White Girl makes money by luring men to dark alleys on the promise of a good time, and mugging them. Cyclona and White Girl also have a moment with beer, a shower, a vibrating bed, and some rampant lesbian sex. Finally they find a poster that shows Sister Gomez is in town. Sister Gomez appears to be a Catholic/spiritist healer; Cyclona is very keen that they visit her, for Sister Gomez has protected her from abuse in the past, and might be able to help them. They visit Sister Gomez at her gaudy mission house. The Sister makes an enormous roast feast for her "little movie star" (Cyclona) and the friend "with the hungry demon" (Crystal), referring to her bulimia. Cyclona then disappears as White Girl is forced to work for Sister Gomez in the same way as she has been doing, in exchange for food. Finally Crystal grows weary and makes her way to the basement, where she finds small children in a bondage room with a U.F.O shaped lantern. There is blood everywhere, and Crystal concludes that Sister Gomez is the leader of a bizarre cult that rapes and eats children and then sells the videos, protected by the front of a Catholic mission. Ready to deliver justice, White Girl/Crystal frees Cyclona and kills all the cult members; she also reveals Sister Gomez to be a rather well-endowed man. Not succumbing to bullets, Gomez is thrown in the oven. Burning, Gomez screams of his 5,000 years of terror and the revenge from his father Jupiter that will ensue. Crystal, keeping a promise made earlier, is forced to kill Cyclona in a tearful scene rather than allow her to be captured. Cyclona, wishing to leave behind a life of abuse and violence, hopes to be reincarnated as an eagle (we discover that Sister Gomez was her earliest abuser). White Girl makes a deal with the federales and leaves with her lawyer/pimp, stating "I'm not hungry anymore." signifying her triumph over the hungry demon.
[edit] Trivia
- According to the Motion Picture Association of America, this is not a sequel to Freeway.
- Almost everything that was taboo for the lead character in the original Freeway is more than fair game for the duo of Freeway 2.
- Freeway 2 is an even more morbid version of the morbid tale of Hansel and Gretel. The garish, come-on-in mission house in the film stands in for the gingerbread house in the traditional tale.
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