Word: graffitiing
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...PRESENCE AND IMPORTANCE of the girls makes the story work and is necessary in the development of American Graffiti's theme. None of the boys can see their way to the future alone. Their only vision of what will happen to them, of what they want to happen to them, is the reflection of themselves they see in the girls...
...American Graffiti is not a soft soap film like its nostalgia predecessors. The end of the film, which is a mite too fanciful (with the college bound boy flying away on "Magic Carpet Airways"), is sober if not sobering. Everybody does not get his girl. But everyone does make his decision. One way or another, for one reason or another, the boys have taken their cards and Lucas will force each one to play them...
...American Graffiti is not just a sequence of events. It is a nostalgia movie a la mode and its success in reconstructing the early sixties is phenomenal. From the Coke to the burger stands with waitresses on roller-skates, from the souped-up cars to the ducktails and pony-tails, from the gang of hoods to the sock-hop, Lucas is unerring in his eye for detail and in his ability to bring his audience eleven years into the past...
...Graffiti's collection of cars makes the movie a must for any greaser or reformed greaser. The driving on the strip raises cruising to the level of ballet...
...acting in Graffiti is sufficient. The female leads are exceptional in their ability to remind us what it was like to grow up female in the sexist sixties. Ronny Howard, who played Sheriff Taylor's son on the Andy Griffith Show, gives the film's only unsatisfactory performance as the dolt...