real generation movie

Rating: Null/10 (9 July 2004)

When I saw the movie for the first time, I loved it right away. But it is only after some 7-8 watches that I have started to realize why. First of all, it is not a drug glorifying movie, as little as a somehow realistic movie about war can be war glorifying. The drug abuse is simply an outcome of the situation the people are in, the chaos of the postmodern world, which has so much to offer, or has it? Choose job, choose carrier, choose family, choose life, choose life insurance.. that's what life is about? I just read an interview with Paul McCartney, and he said that all his life, he hasn't tried anything but to escape "real" work. Unfortunately, no-one of the characters in the movie are anyway near as talented as McCartney, so what do they do to escape the formula their parents are stuck in? They do what they can with their limited brain capacity; party, see movies, listen to music, take drugs, party, have fun, take drugs, avoid work. And one day the main character wakes up to realize that this can't go on forever, that he maybe has to join the normal game anyway. But is that good really, you ask yourself, when he walks briskly with a grim on his face in the second to final scene in the movie.
Can't help the fact that I love the movie more and more every time I see it. It catches something about the age we live in the western world, and it ain't the drugs.
10/10