Duel

Our class just started watching the movie Duel directed by Steven Speilburg. The movie looks like it was made a few years ago. There are no voices, just the radio playing and the sound of cars driving. The man who is the main character right now is a middle aged man with glasses and brown hair. He resembles the man in the movie The Lovely Bones who kidnaps Susie Salmon. The man drives a red car and and seems frustrated with the very dirty 18 wheeler in front of him, so he passes him. While the man in the red car is getting gas, the 18 wheeler also pulls off into the same gas station. He has just called his wife at the gas station to check on her because they had a fight the night before. Their fight was over his friend trying to rape his wife. The man has just left the gas station and as soon as he's back on the road, the 18 wheeler is following him again. David is the man in the red car's name. The 18 wheeler passes David and drives very slow in front of him, everytime David tries to pass him, the 18 wheeler swirves into the other lane, too. David has just gotten back in front of the 18 wheeler and the 18 wheeler is out of site, then starts speeding up right behind him.

The man just got cut off by the 18 wheeler, and ran into the fence. David is complaining and seems to have whiplash. He goes to the cafe across the street to wash his face off and try to get calmed down. He tells himself everything is OK and the 18 wheeler is gone, but when he goes back into the man part of the cafe, he sees the truck parked outside with no one in it. Now, he's trying to figure out which man in the cafe is the driver. He has seen two men with the same boots as the one he saw at the gas station. David is now trying to figure out how to make peace with the man driving the 18 wheeler. One of the men with the brown boots just left in a different truck, so that eliminates David's choices. He told one of the men who he thought was driving the truck to "cut it out" and knocked his drink out of his hand, so the man punched him and left, but not in the 18 wheeler. The 18 wheeler just left, but David still doesn't know which man is driving it. He is now driving in his car again on the highway. He stops to try to help a bus driver get unstuck and ends up getting his car stuck under the bus. The 18 wheeler turns around , so the man gets his car out from under the bus and drives off while the 18 wheeleer gets the bus unstuck. David is driving and has to stop for a train. While he's waiting, the 18 wheeler comes up behind his and starts pushing him towards the train. Luckily, by the time it pushes him all the way to the tracks, the train has gone by. David runs off the side of the road and the 18 wheelers drives past him. Whenever David starts driving again, he sees the 18 wheeler waiting on the side of the road and pulls back onto the road when David is almost passed him. He stops at another gas station and again, the 18 wheeler stops on the side of the road. David calls the police on a payphone and in the middle of his conversation, the 18 wheeler runs into to phonebooth right after David jumps out of it. The 18 wheeler runs into everything and destroys everything at the gas station so David leaves again. The 18 wheeler is still following so David pulls on the side of the road by a train to hide. After, the 18 wheeler passes and David takes a nap, he pulls on the main road again to find the 18 wheeler waiting for him on the side of the road. David gets out of his car to confront the man driving. The 18 wheeler drives off, so David stops an old couple driving by to ask them if they'll call the police. They say no and David begins driving again, determined to beat the 18 wheeler. The 18 wheeler stops following as close, but David's car begins smoking. The 18 wheeler is following again. David seems to be going crazy.