On a Boat

This video portrays America's view of a road trip as a manner of blowing off the real world and doing something no one ever expected, and also drawing attention to your own daring nature. Lets face it, Americans love attention, and this whole movie is about getting attention.

The beginning of the video shows how life is unexpected. They were sitting eating breakfast when their lives were changed. Jorma expects to go on the trip but T-Pain is chosen instead and from that point on he is used as a foil to show the free and powerful nature of those on a road trip.

The other characters on the boat have a wild and crazy Keroac style party, with drinking and fornicating and posing as authority figures (the military uniforms) when they are obviously not mature enough or capable of being authoritative.

The scene where Andy rubs it in Jorma's face that he "has his swim trunks, and his flippy floppies, flipping burgers while [Jorma] is at Kinko's straight flipping copies" portrays a distatse for the normal state of things. Americans basically hate their lives most of the time, and are constantly looking forward to a vacation or any type of escape. This portion of the video shows what life is like when not on a road trip and how the road trip is an escape into an unknown void.

Andy says "oh ma if you could see me now" introducing the idea that being freed from the drugdgery of life is an accomplishment. T-Pain raves about how he "never thought he'd see the day, with a big boat sailing [his] way" showing how Americans don't really believe that they will ever escape from the lives we trap ourselves in.

America is a society of discontented people looking for an escape, whether that be through a road trip or through humor. I think this video has both.