Word: slacker
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been called one of the 10 best films of all time (International Critics Poll, Sight and Sound), a boring film about boredom (John Simon) and, in Antonioni's own words, "a mystery film in reverse," but, to this reviewer's knowledge, it has not yet been called the ultimate slacker film...
Although the title suggests that the book is a sociological study of a culture of depression among America's non-slacker youth, it is simply the tedious and poorly written story of Wurtzel's melodramatic life, warts and all (actually, all warts). At one point she tells us that her mouth has become tired and chapped from giving too many blow jobs; we learn all about her dysfunctional family; and we hear about her Bacchanalian exploits in the Adams House of yore. The book is written as a straight narrative, interspersed with italicized, stream-of-consciousness peeks into Wurtzel...
...Prozac Nation's press packet we encounter the following description of the author: "Witty, intelligent, and hip (nose ring, tatoo [sic]), Elizabeth Wurtzel is definitely not a Gen-X slacker." Beyond the silly assertion of nose rings and tattoos as indexes of hipness, this statement reveals what is meant as the book's selling point: that it's not just losers without jobs who are depressed, that the world is such a tough place that it would depress anyone, even a cool Harvard student. Hey, I buy it. I've been depressed too, and with many of the same symptoms...
...Brattle Theatre serves up a Sunday Mike Nichols duo, "The Graduate" and "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" along with Wednesday's "Slacker" rival, "Dazed and Confused...
...wonderful thing about the Brattle is that two nights later the tone is completely different. One of Wednesday night's selection's, "Dazed and Confused" became an instant hit when it arrived at cinemas last year. By the same director as the documentary, "Slacker," these films share the same setting, Austin, Texas...