Leister Sqare odeon- such a good venue, nice screen, nice seats and bonus of pleanty of places around for coffee after!
I found this film rather confusing, it does away with almost any form of sustained narritive, it seemed as soon as the film grew tired of one character , it disposed of them and moved onto the next, this may have made it intense, yet with none of the characters really being in more than one scene I struggled to keep up. Linklater says, ' I wanted to capture the way you walk around for a day and have these brief encounters with people you kind of know. I wanted it to be like you're home alone after a full day of activity and you' re like piecing it all together.. trying to make sense of it.' Here I get his idea and reasoning but for me it was too intense, when I go to the cinema, I go to relax etc and this was far from it!!!!Yet perahps with a second watch I would ask more questions and begin to piece the movie together and perhaps this is what is required for this film.
At a $23 000 budget- for me this was the result, although clever - it left me confused and dizzy trying to keep up. On the other hand I thought the way the camera moved across the characters and used heierachy within the frame successfully- it helped me understand what was going on better....so maybe Slacker was technically good but lacked content.
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