it's a movie about music! in chicago! in the year 2000!

Rating: Null/10 (11 November 2013)

Oh, those halycon days before the wars in the Middle East, massive income inequality, the Great Recession and the NSA watching our every move. When I think back to 1999-2002, there's just about nothing I didn't like. I was a hipster in Chicago back in 2007, and I remember the el, the relaxed fashion, listening to Belle and Sebastian and looking down on the preppy kids for their shitty music taste. The film takes a somewhat sardonic view of hipsterdom, but it's obvious, especially with hindsight, that Rob and his friends are onto something, and their love of music seems so much less pretentious than their highbrow counterparts (a particular chicago music publication comes to mind). There is nowhere like Chicago: the city is clean, the people are friendly, and nowhere else in the world is the sky such a glorious shade of periwinkle blue.