Slacker - 1991 - 3½ Stars

Actors:  Who Cares
Director:  Richard Linklater

Slacker is like a strange time-and-place capsule film - the content of the movie is not all that important, and indeed I've already forgotten most of the dialogue even though it's a talk-heavy film.  Concerning an interconnected group of underemployed twentysomethings in Austin, the film doesn't have an overarching plot - in fact, usually once a character's journey gets interesting, it gets shunted off screen.  I mentioned 'dialogue', but the film seems more like a series of monologues - no one seems to listen to anyone else here, they're too busy trying to be themselves.  I suppose the film makes the point that watching 90 minutes of different people trying their damnedest to be interesting can at times be quite exhausting.  Regardless, we get philosophy, conspiracy theories, pop culture commentary, and the sense that these people actually existed.