Richard Linklater’s debut film “Slacker” depicts a single day in the lives of young bohemians living in Austin, Texas. It adopts a unique Joycean structure of following a single person for a while as they go about their day, and then leaving them to follow another person who has just passed through the frame. His 1993 follow-up “Dazed and Confused” is more expensive and more focused than his plotless debut, but Linklater still retains the single day structure, the large ensemble cast, and the loose rambling nature from “Slacker” for his first mainstream film: a teen stoner movie about the existential boredom of adolescence. more…
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