Review of Slacker (1990) by Daniel D — 02 Dec 2012
One of the movies that started the American independent film movement of the 90s, Slacker is a strange, funny, and often surreal collection of interconnected vignettes about the unusual lives of various people in Austin, Texas.
The movie transitions between vignettes every five or ten minutes, often simply by having the camera start following a new person. The writing is entirely stream-of-consciousness, and the movie is without a singular plot, which makes it less accessible to those hoping for a movie with a familiar structure.
The dialogue is endlessly entertaining, with characters giving nonsensical rants about topics such as astronauts being on Mars since the 1950s, a JFK assassination book called "Conspiracy-a-go-go," and the sale of Madonna's pap smear.
The movie is in essence just a reflection of the generation that director Richard Linklater was living in, where certain people, the slackers, were often just going through life without any real sense of direction, who spend their time thinking but never doing.
With that in mind, Slacker is a one-of-a-kind movie that doesn't necessarily fit into a genre, but it paints an unusual and interesting portrait of a culture of so-called slackers.
This review of Slacker (1990) was written by Daniel D on 02 Dec 2012.
Slacker has generally received positive reviews.
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