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Gasoline Rainbow Bottles the Feeling of Being 18 Again
Mostly in a good way.
It’s where teenagers Tony Aburto, Micah Bunch, Nichole Dukes, Nathaly Garcia, and Makai Garza (the characters share names with the first-time actors playing them) grew up and feel constrained by, for reasons that are specific to each of them but also just part of the experience of being 18. When Nathaly tells a stranger at a rowdy truck stop about how her father, whom she calls “the heart of my family,” was deported, or when Micah wipes tears away while catching up with a cousin who has put the crew up for the night at his home in Portland, it feels like vivid, unforced vulnerability — whether it’s true or not. There’s the skateboarder wearing a captain’s hat who shows them a park under an overpass and tells them he’s “nautical by nature” and the metalheads who house them and then cook them breakfast in the morning while listening to the Lord of the Rings score and talking, charmingly, about how badass Tom Bombadil is.
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