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Clerks (1994)
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Slacker Film Festival
I hadn't seen any of the slacker movies, so I thought I would check them out starting with this one. I wanted to see what it was all about - men stuck in perpetual adolescence. This is about slackers with jobs. Not jobs that interfere with their slacker lifestyle. They can still collect a paycheck and have time to discuss whether it was fair for contractors to die in the building of the Death Star and, if a hockey game had to be played, then just close the store for an hour.
Brian O'Halloran and Jeff Anderson were really funny as best friends Dante and Randall. Rabdall understood what slacking was all about and was cool with his life. It was Dante that seemed to be in a quandary. A lot of the film was Randal trying to straighten him out. Their banter was exceedingly funny.
Of course, Dante has a problem with Veronica and Caitlan, played by Marilyn Ghigliotti and Lisa Spoonhauer. The women appear to be much more mature than their love interests. Their lives are going somewhere, but they are still attracted to the slackers. What's up with that? Looking at this film just for what it was, it really told an interesting story and moved very well under the direction of Kevin Smith. There were some extremely funny sequences and I am interested in exploring more of this genre.
I do have to say that this movie is definitely not for someone with sensitive ears.
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