Much of American Honey features the mag crew engaging in various daily rituals: driving around in a van, partying, and blasting recent hits from musical acts like Atlanta rap duo Rae Sremmurd and Chicago R&B impresario Jeremih and, most ubiquitously, Rihanna's "We Found Love," Arnold's personal choice for the soundtrack and a dizzying, immortal pop explosion that acts as the film's theme song.
"It's a big change in a major American ritual of driving as early as possible," Mr. Marsden said.
During their son's freshman year at college, Barbara and Raymond Sheehan had a weekend ritual of driving to Connecticut from Howard Beach, Queens, to watch him play football, take him to dinner and deliver clean laundry.
But when the time came to buy, they wanted more space and found the prices too high, and they decided they could also live without the ritual of driving around in search of a parking spot, sometimes for 40 minutes.
After my grandfather died, my mom and I began the annual ritual of driving Grandma from lake country to the Florida beaches in the brand-new living-room-size Cadillac she bought every year.
As a matter of fact, growing up, our Sunday ritual was driving an hour to the stable.
Because, with the 'real deals' being pitched for Thanksgiving, why bother with the idiotic post-turkey ritual of driving in pre-dawn darkness to shiver in solidarity in a line twisting around a big-box?
He also loves plants and wildlife; drinking binges; inane male-bonding rituals; driving-related mishaps; odd or demeaning jobs; freaky, isolated communities; creepy old houses; and debilitating heartbreaks.
The authors tried to explain this by introducing an idea of a symbiosis between informational memes (originated the "neutral" rituals) and biological organisms (driving "promicrobial" rituals) [ 6].
It was a repetitive, driving ritual, one in which there was no day or night and the sound of concussions replaced the passage of time.
