Films which earn cult classic status often combine silly features and overwhelming truths. Ride It Till The Wheels Fall Off uses scenes from John Landis’ 1980 cult classic screwball-comedy The Blues Brothers, to try and capture a pure and indescribable truth about our bizarre and violent situation in modern western society.
Through this repurposed footage, Ride It Till The Wheels Fall Off surveys a number of contemporary issues in the Canadian criminal justice system. It interrogates ideas of good-and-bad and redemption. Overall it is a meditation on “the criminal,” the person whose mere existence in free society is a crime.