The Plot
Stevo and Bob are 2 educated punks in Salt Lake City. They are brilliant lads but they just don’t believe in society and the system. They believe in anarchy i.e. no system and no rules. They are dead against the posers, the rock stars, the rednecks, the mods etc. etc.
They decide to do nothing for a year or so and just go to parties, drink and have some good sex. They have some likeminded buddies like Mike, Mark, Sandy, Trish etc. etc. Bob’s dad is sort of a lunatic whereas Stevo’s parents are divorced. His dad wants him to go to Harvard Law School. Stevo has a thing for Sandy whereas Bob is in love with the much older Trish.
But in that 1 year a lot of things change and Steve realizes that anarchy has no meaning and no future and that being in the system and screwing it as a lawyer is much better than being out of the system. He also meets his lady love Brandy on a blind date and he loses Bob unfortunately due to a narcotic overdose
Hits
- Matthew Lillard and Michael Goorjian as the 2 punk friends look play and live their parts. Particularly Lillard steals the show. Great emoting particularly in the climax.
- The narrative style of Stevo talking directly to the audience and introducing all his friends in the party by directly talking to the audience is very new, innovative and sort of kick-ass.
- The dialogs are cheeky and they go into a lot of detail explaining certain phenomena in a lively and funny manner.
- The scenes where Stevo realizes that his life is going nowhere and that there is no meaning to his life make a lot of impact. Mathew Lillard does very well in these scenes.
Comments
- The party scenes just go and on and become repetitive. But, in a movie about hep jobless punks, guess this can pass off.
VERDICT
Another tale of the lead guy coming off age by realizing the meaning of life, the hard way. Told in the backdrop of the punk culture in Salt Lake City, it is a very new experience.
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