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Thelma & Louise, like so many movies of its type, maintains a cheery, jokey air as its principals drift toward disaster. Fans of the smog and fog that director Scott has pumped through films like Blade Runner and Black Rain will be glad to know that he has found its equivalent in the dust kicked up by speeding cars on back roads. But the better news is that working territory new to him, Scott has balanced action, comedy and doomy subtext to create a morally firm yet very entertaining fable that reaches out to an audience far larger than its natural feminist constituency.