“The Doom Generation”- an
epic movie. It’s a part of Gregg Araki’s
Teenage Apocalypse Trilogy and I’d definitely recommend watching it for
brilliant characters, original dialoguesàan
example below, trippy feel, great 90s
music and peculiar style.
Amy:
Look, you fucking chunky pumpkinhead! I don't know what the fuck you're talking
about!
Cashier: You told me you loved me... You told me you'd never leave me...
Amy: What is this, Night of the Living Brain-dead? Wake up and smell the cappucino, geek. I don't know you, I've never fucking seen you before, I don't know who the fuck this 'Sunshine' is!
Cashier: You told me you loved me... You told me you'd never leave me...
Amy: What is this, Night of the Living Brain-dead? Wake up and smell the cappucino, geek. I don't know you, I've never fucking seen you before, I don't know who the fuck this 'Sunshine' is!
“Nowhere” the last movie
of the series is cool too but much more psychedelic and lacks the charm of TDG.
Nevertheless, it is also abundant with cute lines like this
one by Dark“Dear
diary, what a day. I swear I've never been so depressed, miserable, and lonely
in my entire life. It's like I know there's got to be somebody out there
somewhere... just one person in this huge, horrible, unhappy universe who can
hold me in their arms and tell me everything is going to be okay. And how long
do I have to wait before that person shows up. I feel like I'm sinking deeper
and deeper into quicksand... watching everyone around me die a slow, agonizing,
death. It's like we all know way down in our souls that our generation is going
to witness the end of everything. You can see it in our eyes. It's in mine, look.
I'm doomed. I'm only 18 years-old and I'm totally doomed.”
I’m not 18 years-old
anymore, but yes Dark, I’m totally doomed too.
Well, I probably wouldn’t
find this confession so appealing, frankly - poignant, if it wasn’t for my current jobless *doomed*
situation which made me develop a special bond with the character.
I will dare to say that in
the current economic situation many miserable young unemployed people would be
able to recognise their own experiences /obviously in a metaphoric way/ or
feelings in the Teenage Apocalypse Trilogy which makes these movies weirdly
relevant and timely.
Anyways, one thing I would
remove from Araki’s films is blood which luckily doesn’t appear on the screen
for a bearable couple of minutes.
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