>Slacker (1990)
A classic for its time and revered among indie circles, I never wanted to watch it. It focused on DA YOUT of the early 90s, which, as you can imagine, meant listening to young adults tell me why the proletariat were being put down (this may be your parents' generation, fellas). In a misguided moment, I checked it out.
The movie is a selection of little narratives of different people in Austin, Texas. For the most part, we focus on young adults, but there are the occasional kid and older folk (including an anarchist praising Charles Whitman, while getting a campaign poster of Ron Paul in the back. Trippy). The general connection between the lot is a passing by with the camera.
This screams low-budget indie movie. The acting is wooden, the cinematography is lackluster, and the Marxist rhetoric is prominent. But for what it was worth, it did a good job. It wasn't trying to be anything than "in the moment", and it was successful at that. It also had some funny moments, like the poster's character (who is a woman; I always thought it was a man) talking about selling a pube from Madonna. It definitely defines a time in American history and made me feel sad that we don't live in simpler times (and believe that socialism is going to solve all problems). Youth is wasted on the young: the movie.