Review of Clerks (1994) by Jon P — 16 Jun 2016
Kevin Smith's cheap-o shop drama is a punk parable about the pitfalls of being a pushover.
Shot in grainy black and white with a trash rock soundtrack, Smith's film mixes grungy wallops of wisdom with downbeat comedy.
A catalogue of cyclical quips and retrospective put-downs plague Dante (Brian O'Halloran) in his social Inferno - a place we've all been, we all hated, but we all miss with a childlike charm.
Smith's script is always silly and sarcastic, yet never smarmy or didactic. His characterisation is so good, we feel as if we went to school with these kids. Somehow, Clerks captures wasted youth at its most hopeless, it's least pretentious and its most nostalgic all at once.
This review of Clerks (1994) was written by Jon P on 16 Jun 2016.
Clerks has generally received very positive reviews.
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