Made for a fraction of the cost of Oliver Stone's similarly themed Natural Born Killers, Gregg Araki's The Doom Generation is more persuasively outrageous in its cultural satire, scarier in its violence and more profound in its vision of a hate-fuelled, media-drunk America seemingly determined to eat its young and dwell stupidly on their vengeance. Rose McGowan (Scream), James Duval (Nowhere) and Johnathon Schaech (That Thing You Do!) star as a trio of friends (Schaech's character actually being a complete stranger who steps into their car and into their lives one... club-hopping night) who end up on a sex-and-crime spree that draws the fixed stare of television coverage. Araki makes a case for their continuing innocence in a society whose anti-outsider malevolence is barely disguised in the media but is quite naked out in the heartland, where a punishing level of bigotry is not unknown. Araki's jokes and techniques are crude yet forceful, and his anger is absolutely clear where Stone's was obscured and overreaching. The climax is among the most shattering and enraged scenes of 90s cinema. The DVD includes cast information, a theatrical trailer, and French and Spanish subtitles. --Tom Keogh [show more]
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Gregg Araki's surreal and violent road movie is part of a trilogy comprising 'Totally F***ed Up' and 'Nowhere'. A young couple (Rose McGowan and James Duval) are saved by an enigmatic, bisexual loner (Johnathon Schaech) when a convenience store hold-up goes wrong. Forced on the run, the oddly-matched threesome get involved in a number of crazed adventures, whilst the sexual relationships between them become ever more intense. The indie soundtrack features the likes of The Verve, Jesus and Mary Chain and Lush.
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