My Own Private Idaho, dir. Gus Van Sant My Own Private Idaho A boy asks a boy to love him the only way he knows how and gets only an embrace in response which isn't nothing but isn't exactly what he asked for either. The road is empty and never-ending and the boys are riding it together until it isn't and it ends and they're not. For every time the boy wakes up held & protected & safe he wakes alone in another city dewy grass against his face without his shoes. So the other boy gets married. So a man dies, crying out to God. What did you expect? The boy knows that the world takes care of no one, that all he wants will slip through his fingers, and has. He's been on this road before and he'll be on it again. If you face either direction, you'll just see the same thing. The road is empty but we travel along it anyway, even though we don't know where we're going anymore.