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Dazed & Confused
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by Universal Studios
Sales Rank: 5088
Price: $9.98
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You remember high school? <I>Really</I> remember? If you think you do, watch this film: it'll all really come racing back. After changing the world with the generation-defining <I>Slacker</I>, director Richard Linklater turned his free-range vérité sensibility on the 1970s. As before, his all-seeing camera meanders across a landscape studded with goofy pop culture references and poignant glimpses of human nature. Only this time around, he's spreading a thick layer of nostalgia over the lens (and across the soundtrack). It's as if <I>Fast Times at Ridgemont High</I> was directed by Jean-Luc Godard. The story deals with a group of friends on the last day of high school, 1976. Good-natured football star Randall "Pink" Floyd navigates effortlessly between the warring worlds of jocks, stoners, wannabes, and rockers with girlfriend and new-freshman buddy in tow. Surprisingly, it's not a coming-of-age movie, but a film that dares ask the eternal, overwhelming, adolescent question, "What happens next?" It's a little too honest to be a light comedy (representative quote: "If I ever say these were the best years of my life, remind me to kill myself."). But it's also way too much fun (remember souped-up Corvettes and bicentennial madness?) to be just another existential-essay-on-celluloid. <I>--Grant Balfour</I>
Viewer Reviews
This movie gets it all right. As a child of the 70s, I lived through it all and it's documented very well in this movie.
We didn't have hazing at my high school (thank God!), but everything else is just like what I went through. The constant pot smoking, the music, the muscle cars, the clothes, he even nailed obnoxious coaches too.
And, of course, this movie was a springboard for new stars. I was like the redhead in this movie - I hated the 70s (until punk/new wave came along), but watching this movie makes me nostalgic and makes me realize I had a better time than I thought....
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