Dazed and Confused really spoke to me. When we saw it we were like holy shit this is our life like six-eight years ago. The social scene was exactly that. Just cruising around, planning the next party, the next beer run, who was interested in who, where do we get the concert tickets. And everywhere you went, there were people you knew. It was like there was a hundred, two hundred of you and you just spent your time like a little pinball, bouncing around town, wasting time.
I'm thinking of that because I was thinking of generational coming-of-age movies, you know how they represent a moment in time, like Pretty In Pink could never happen today, and Ferris Bueller, that movie could have only existed in that one precise moment (Remember when we found out Jeffrey Jones was a pedo and Charlie Sheen had HIV? Before that moment.) and I was wondering how a movie like that would look today.
How does one come of age today? How would that be represented on the screen? Would we be looking at people upgrading their devices? Getting their own plans? I jest but...
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