Review of Dazed and Confused (1993) by Enrica C — 24 Dec 2011

Apparently, I just didn't get it. To me "Dazed & Confused" is just a movie that dazzles and confuses people -- it's just about all these teenagers and their doings in the night right after the end of school. So school's out and they of course organize parties, make fun of freshmen --- bla bla bla. Now, I'm not saying that's not what really used to happen back in '79, I'm just saying that "Dazed & Confused" is about everything and nothing at the same time: nothing happens here, it just follows an undefined number of teens to show the audience how they spent this first night after the high school year is over...

It's not like a Tarantino's "Pulp Fiction" where you do have different stories coming all together, there's no plot it's all kept really simple and... I think it sticks to realty. My problem here is that when I do watch a movie I don't want realty, I want to see something that resembles realty but is exaggerated compared to realty. Here after 30 minutes or so I started to get bored to see this people keeping on doing the same things, over and over again. Just talking, smoking, drinking beers, having illegal parties --- is this what this movie is about?

If that's it I got it and I'm ok with it. But I think it might get boring after half an hour. Just my thought here. I would still suggest you see this movie because apparently most people did enjoy it. And the music soundtrack is simply great!