|
Post by lordhowl on Dec 3, 2010 22:22:23 GMT -5
One thing I think back on about Bailey Downs was how much everybody walked, and not only that, the very fact that people walked and got somewhere.
I notice that Ginger and Brigitte walk home from school. In a US suburb, that would not happen. The school would generally be too far away to walk back from. At 15, they would have to take a bus or get driven.
I also notice that Brigitte is able to walk from school to Sam's place, and walk from Sam's place to home. (In the script, Sam actually drove her home, but she runs there later to get the cure, then runs from there to school.) Ginger and Brigitte were also able to walk to playground. If, in the US, they had, by luck, lived close enough to school, the odds are astronomical that they would be able to walk to other places too.
US suburbs, at least from 1950, were built for the convenience of the developers and the zoning officials, and made to maximize auto companies' profits, meaning that everything else is inconvenient. Houses are set too far away from anything you have to get to.
Bailey Downs was not like this, it was almost suburb-lite, missing a key part of the culture-crushing aspect of the burbs. If it drove Ginger and Brigitte nuts, I could only imagine how a US suburb would have played with them.
|
|
|
Post by sophielovessam on Dec 5, 2010 19:21:09 GMT -5
Here, people walk from their suburbs/estates to school and to a lot of other places. Just like in Bailey Downs.
|
|
|
Post by †Wicky Wicked† on Dec 6, 2010 14:14:47 GMT -5
I don't live in a suburb but I used to walk from my house to school too .... but my school was around the corner haha
|
|