Corporate-Crushing/Suburbia-Hating Flicks: Millenial Neo-Realism?
John H
<crou...@yahoo.com> wrote:
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>ICE STORM about complacent suburbinite bored, insecure, disillusioned,
>disconnected
>IN THE COMPANY OF MEN, abt mean-spirited, conniving, deprived, castrated,
>Machiavellian yuppies
>BOILER ROOM, same as above, marketed for Buffy crowd
>BLUE VELVET, abt freaks in suburbia, probably exemplary of this new genre?
>Can we call it genre?
>FIGHT CLUB, abt disillusioned yuppies who want to feel and connect, a lot of
>underlying 60s nostalgia
>AMERICAN BEAUTY, abt disillusioned suburbinites who self-destruct, some
>survive, some don't
>Most Michelangelo Antonioni's films
>THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOUISE <sp?>
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Two separate types of films -- similar messages.
Add Neil Labute's Your Friends And Neighbours. Also Todd Solondz's
Happiness. Todd Haynes' Safe.
Discrete Charm doesn't really fit, though -- European haute bourgeois
are not the same as American suburbanites, and it's more of a game
film, a weird reversal of Bunuel's Exterminating Angel, which, despite
its age, kind of fits neatly into this group, in an
absurdist/surrealist way.
John Harkness