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- VIEW POINTS, Page 63CINEMA'90s Going on '60s
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- By Richard Corliss
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- Every summer needs an oddball movie, muttering happily to
- itself in a forgotten corner of the superplex while the mega
- budget pictures bat each other silly. So welcome to SLACKER, a
- parade of all-American weirdos. Writer-director Richard
- Linklater has borrowed the format of La Ronde -- one character
- talking to a second, the second to a third and so on -- and
- populated it with dozens of layabouts (slackers) in Austin.
- These motor-mouth dropouts have decided on a life of independent
- study: of the Kennedy assassination, or the space program (we've
- been on Mars since 1962, colonizing the galaxy with financing
- from the Medellin cartel), or Elvis (he's living in Las Vegas,
- working as -- what else? -- an Elvis impersonator). The wildest
- theories are received with a blissed-out smile. "Sorry I'm
- late," somebody says; the reply is "That's O.K. -- time doesn't
- exist." Yes, it does. Though set in the '90s, Slacker has a
- spirit that is pure '60s, and in this loping, loopy, sidewise,
- delightful comedy, Austin is Haight-Ashbury.
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