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nutmegalomaniac

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Nov 29, 2006 13:10

I read a review of FAST FOOD NATION a few days ago where the writer was saying that the movie deliberately looked like crap to reflect the tackiness of the fast food industry. That soundeed like a fabricated justification for the movie not looking good. Now that I've seen the film, I sort of agree with the comment. In a weird way, I can't picture ( Read more... )

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jsangspar November 29 2006, 20:20:32 UTC

You found FFN affecting? I found it to be yet another Linklater sketchy boring wank-off with no real purpose or dramatic narrative to hold it together. It didn't even try to say anything significant.

nutmegalomaniac November 29 2006, 20:29:23 UTC

It's affecting in places. I don't think highly of the movie. I checked my watch at one point and couldn't believe it had only been running for 30 minutes. But the Mexican story works for me, despite Linklater's typically prosaic filmmaking. By stepping out of his detached-observational mode a bit, and embracing film's manipulation potential, this segment attains a necessary ugliness. It's a bizarrely constructed film, though. On a screenplay level, his only good movie is Dazed and Confused.