Duel | Movie Review

Duel - 1971

Directed by - Steven Spielberg

Duel has a fairly simple plot. A bussiness man is on his way through a deserted area for a meeting. And he unintentionally overtakes a big old tank truck. Now the the movie would have never been made, if the driver of the truck would simply have counted down from 10 to 1 to calm his nerves. But the driver of the truck turned out to be psychopath who will only stop when killing that man that dared to overtook him. And what we see after that is the Duel between these two, one is obsessively trying to kill other over slightest offense and other just want to save his life from a raging psychopath.

This was Spielberg's first feature film. He directed it when he was only 24! And what an intense ride. With fairly simple plot and resources what Spielberg achieved was truly phenomenal. Just passionate film-making.

With not more than couple dozen dialogues, a lonely desolate road and just two vehicles, what we get is a totally cool and intense thriller movie. There is nothing more we can talk about rather than how it is made. The film is as simple as it is. But the making of this movie is best part of all. There was great use of camera angles and great camera work. How its shot is the best part of the film. There was no music and sound except the wild beastly thrusting of big monster truck, acting was almost limited to one guy only, Dennis Weaver, who was only required to feel terrorized by the unknown truck driver, which he did convincingly.

More than anything this movie will be remembered as a starting point of someone that would go on to spectacular movies and that is Steven Spielberg.

Rating: ★★★★

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