 I guess I’m just a sucker for movies about old guys and their motor obsessions, because this “unabashed mash note to a lovely character from New Zealand’s recent past” (to quote a review on Amazon) was the perfect date night movie. In the The World’s Fastest Indian, Anthony Hopkins plays real life 60-something Burt Munro, a Kiwi who’s been tinkering with his 1920s-era Indian motorcycle for years, pushing it to faster and faster speeds. His dream is to take the bike to the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah and try for a land speed record, and when he realizes he won’t live forever, he sells everything and heads for the US. About riding fast he says: “You live more in five minutes going flat out in one of these things than most live in a lifetime.” Burt is completely captivating and I cheered for him even when I though he was nuts.
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