Especially people have the urge to make independent movies on their own

Kole 2022-02-16 08:03:06

Richard Linklater, in terms of film techniques, Boyhood and Before Midnight, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset trilogy are all synchronized with the real world time. Such obsessions are exchanged for a moving sense of reality, which can be described as experimental. Practical life. And the other one, his debut novel Slacker, which is an absurd drama that is full of the overeducated, the social misfits, the outcasts and the oddballs, which is similar to family dv shooting. This is a day in Austin, Texas. From the first shot, it feels like there is only dialogue left, or more often, monologues. It seems that everyone knows anyone in the city, and this is precisely the link between the scenes. There is no protagonist, no plot of more than 2 minutes, one person walks into another person’s life and then leaves, the camera turns to the latter, so repeated and coherent , Finally led to an unprecedented subculture discussion.
Introduce a scene from the beginning. The
director is sitting in a taxi and chattering about his dreams. It is estimated that he is talking about the existence of daily experience (dream, reality, multiple) derived from the parallel universe (the raw meat eaten does not fully understand) . The taxi driver drove the car intently with expressionless face, and looked at the rearview mirror from time to time, very focused, and didn't care.
I feel that these two people are actually the same person. He feels unreal in his life and hopes to make another choice, which is not so normal, but he has already gotten in this taxi, regardless of his inner desires. No matter how strong it is, you must take care of your own safety, follow the road and repeat only knowingly.
Then, in order to avoid repetition, I then gave the shots to a group of people. Everyone has their own repetitions, but everyone only gives one or two shots, and they are independent of each other. Think about it, if this group of people is A person, they say weird things, do maverick things, if all of this is done by one person, then what a rich day will be.
Love the final soundtrack, and throw the video recorder down the cliff, the camera rotates in the sky, like a starry night.

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Extended Reading
  • Dangelo 2022-03-25 09:01:16

    The look and feel is somewhat similar to Jarmusch's "Coffee and Cigarette", but in form, all the characters are connected by scheduling and camera movement, but this is also where the film is stronger than "Coffee". The perceived state of community life.

  • Lois 2022-03-20 09:02:26

    Hmm very Linklater... not suitable for me to watch so many director's movies and find that his most storytelling movie is Boyhood

Slacker quotes

  • Traumatized Yacht Owner: Quit... quit... you should quit... YOU should quit... you should... you should...

    [to "Happy go lucky guy"]

    Traumatized Yacht Owner: You should- You should quit traumatizing women with sexual intercourse... I should know... I'm a medical doctor... I own a mansion and a yacht... You should quit traumatizing women with sexual intercourse... I should know... I'm a medical doctor...

  • [first lines]

    Should Have Stayed at Bus Station: [babbling to silent cab driver] Man, I just had the weirdest dream - back on the bus there? Did you ever have one of those dreams that are completely real. I mean they're so vivid. It's just like completely real. It's like, there's always something bizarre going on, though. I have one about every 2 years or something. I always remember 'em real good. Like there's always someone getting run over, or something really weird. Um, one time I had lunch with Tolstoy. Another time I was a roadie for Frank Zappa. Anyway, so this dream I just had was just like that, except instead of anything bizarre going on, I mean, there was just nothing going on at all. Man. It was like the Omega Man. It was just nobody around. I was just traveling around, you know, staring out the windows of buses, and trains, and cars. When I was at home, I was like flipping through the TV stations endlessly. Reading. How dreams do you have when you read in a dream, you know?