Review of Slacker (1990) by Angga R — 28 May 2008

An innovative cult movie by Linklater in his second feature. a movie about several slackers who almost don't have any connection in one group of slackers with the other groups. what they have in common is they just a people at their twenties who live in Austin, Texas.

When we watch this movie , the first thing that will come out of our mind is "this movie definitely a very cheap movie!" maybe you right with that thought, if you pay the attention of the clothes their wearing, the places, the color of the movie, and the casts whose faces are very "common people" and none of them are famous, except Richard Linklater himself.

Although those images would make us disturbing, but you must see what the inside of this movie, the real point of it, and what Linklater try to convey to us. He wants deliver to us the real image of slacker in Austin, so that "cheap and simple things" is like watching the slacker in the street of Austin by our own eyes.

It is very real and true image that Linklater shows to us. the most beautiful, attractive, interesting of the whole parts is the ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY! that thing reveals to us that Linklater is a genius, smart and skillful.

by one slacker to another have the unique and great conversations, from madonna,serial killers, politics, theorists, bands, etc. the subjects maybe seems unimportant, but those still make us to pay attention and curious to listen.

and these what the movie is all about that everybody is always a philosopher-wannabe, everywhere and all the time. In conclusion, this movie is about they who "talk a lot but say nothing!".