It is difficult to imagine two young men less suited to a wilderness hike than the two guys named Gerry in the Gus Van Sant film entitled Gerry. It is also impossible to imagine a less Hollywood movie made by a major American filmmaker.

In both cases -- the Gerrys and Van Sant -- the people involved are courting disaster, the two young men because of their poor decisions, Van Sant because he has made a minimalist film in which the landscape is the strongest character.
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