Today I bring you an Indie film that really inspired me to want to become a filmmaker. It's Richard Linklater's 1991 film SLACKER.
SLACKER presents a day in the life in Austin, Texas among its social outcasts and misfits, predominantly the twenty-something set, using a series of linear vignettes. These characters, who in some manner just don't fit into the establishment norms, move seamlessly from one scene to the next, randomly coming and going into one another's lives. Highlights include a UFO buff who adamantly insists that the U.S. has been on the moon since the 1950s, a woman who produces a glass slide purportedly of Madonna's pap smear, and an old anarchist who sympathetically shares his philosophy of life with a robber.
This is not a film everyone will get. It works best in multiple viewings to understand everything that is going on. But for those of us who get it, it's a thing of great beauty and honesty.
Enjoy!
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