Corporate-Crushing/Suburbia-Hating Flicks: Millenial Neo-Realism?

[alex crouvier]

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?>

[Trace Bearden]

In article <38c28...@news.cyberway.com.sg>, "alex crouvier"
<crou...@yahoo.com> wrote:

> BLUE VELVET, abt freaks in suburbia, probably exemplary of this new genre?

In "American Beauty" and "The Ice Storm", the suburbanites board a
commuter train for the big city where they work. For these people, their
suburban homes are suppose to represent sereneness and decorum, away from
the crime and poverty of the big city.

On the other hand, the terrain of "Blue Velvet" is an all-American small
town, the kind Stephen King might write about. This small town is all
inclusive in its scenes of depravity.