A sad voice of clear reason

"You best keep running, Clyde Barrow."  From Bonnie and Clyde (1967), these words, spoken by Bonnie Parker's mother, cut to the heart of the matter.  Bonnie and Clyde have arranged a family picnic with Bonnie's family somewhere off the beaten path along a country road.  Bonnie feigns happiness, but her mother knows the truth.  Clyde talks grandly of settling down, marrying Bonnie, and buying a house near Ma Parker, but she will have none of it.  No, they have forfeited their right to live a normal life, and it will end badly for them, and all they can do is keep running.  It does not get much more glamorous than Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway, but the miserably short lives of the real Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker left nothing to be desired.  In his book "Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde" (2010), author Jeff Guinn provides the details of the impoverished drudgery that was the existence from which the Barrow Gang and Bonnie Parker emerged.  Yet, the worst of that was far better than their endless road trip on the run from law enforcement at every turn.  And yes, it did end very badly.  Although Guinn's book debunks much of the movie as fiction, the hail of bullets in which Bonnie and Clyde perished was all too real.  They ran as far and as fast as they could. Ma.