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...Directed by Richard Linklater 1 Star If “Super-Size Me” is the documentary version of street-corner proselytizing against evil corporate junk food, “Fast Food Nation” is its object-lesson counterpart, tediously preaching to the proverbial choir. Director Richard Linklater??s much-anticipated feature film “Fast Food Nation” is not a documentary. Rather, it is a fictional account that dramatizes the nonfiction book by the same name, written by Eric Schlosser, the film’s co-author. “Fast Food...
...Fast Food Nation” is a fictionalized film version of Eric Schlosser’s 2001 nonfiction book of the same name. Written in conjunction with Schlosser, the film makes the case against fast food in America by following the lives of several characters involved in the industry.Though Linklater??s commitment to the issues in the film seems genuine, he said he’s not looking to deprive people of their burgers. Rather, he said, he wants to inform people so that they can make better choices. “It is a political movie...
...partially improvised, wholly organic dialogue, and sparse background music.It is a talking picture in which “not much happens”—that is, the type that’s difficult to synopsize—but, unlike the pleasantly rambling street philosophers who populate Richard Linklater??s films, Bujalski’s characters speak with the faltering cadence of everyday life.It evokes cinema verite, populated by characters who continue to exist even after the few moments they spend on-screen. There is a veneer of calmness that belies a deep anxiety expressed...
...talking picture in which “not much happens”—that is, the type that’s difficult to synopsize—but, unlike the pleasantly rambling street philosophers who populate Richard Linklater??s films, Bujalski’s characters speak in the faltering cadence of everyday life...
...dialogue for the above passel of purposes; one of the only ones who’s currently working is Richard Linklater. Which is why I’m overjoyed that you uncovered Before Sunset, whose predecessor was everything that Lost in Translation could’ve been. I think Linklater??s been hit-and-miss for a few years—School of Rock aside, Tape underwhelmed me, and all that Waking Life had going for it was innovative presentation (there’s that dubious “I” word again) and enough aimless, useless...