Richard Linklater's Slacker presents a day in the life of a subculture of marginal eccentric and overeducated citizens in and around the University of Texas at Austin. Shooting the film on 16mm for a mere $23 000 writer/producer/director Linklater and his close-knit crew of friends eschewed a traditional plot choosing instead to employ long takes and fluid transitions to create a tapestry of over a hundred characters each as unique as the last culminating in an episodic portrait of a distinct vernacular culture and a tribute to bohemian cerebration. Slacker is... a prescient look at an emerging generation of aggressive nonparticipants and one of the keynote films of the American independent film movement of the 1990s. [show more]
Without an actual plot, this film isn't to all tastes, but it should satisfy those with an interest in American independent cinema. It cruises between strange conversations and events within the town of Austin, Texas - each one seemingly more and more bizarre. With very few cuts in this film (and roughly a third of the total of cuts occuring in the last 10 minutes) the film is very slow, but the characters are all interesting and engaging, in a similar way to how Linklater's "Waking Life" is a fascinating series of dreamy events. If you like films that are different, but not far-out arty nonsense, then this is a very interesting film with a lot of mileage, the conversations read like that of Kevin Smith films or, to a lesser extent, the pop-culture babble that can appear in Quentin Tarantino films (I should point out that Kevin smith actually credits 'Slacker' as the film that inspired him to make his own). In all this film portrays an amusing and original side of the 90s American disillusioned-youths, but you might want to break up the viewing in the middle.
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