JIM JARMUSCH'S

MYSTERY TRAIN

and the Myths of

Elvis

 

Mystery Train is Jim Jarmusch's third major film after Down By Law and Stranger Than Paradise. Filmed in 1989, it expresses again the belief that America cannot be neatly packaged into safe and convenient marketing units, that there must be a life beyond tourist brochures, offering a place for outlaws, dropouts, and unemployed working-class heroes. These are the people that Elvis Presley's song "Mystery Train", which gave the film its title, is about, and for Jarmusch, these are the true inhabitants of the Memphis cultural landscape.

 

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