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DAZED AND CONFUSED
Directed by Richard Linklater; with Jason London, Joey Lauren Adams,
Milla Jovovich, Shawn Andrews, Rory Cochrane, Adam Goldberg, Wiley Wiggins,
Parker Posey, and Matthew McConaughey
1993
nother
last day of school movie -- this time it's high school, 1976 -- Dazed
and Confused offers an unpretentious day-in-the-life glimpse of
suburban Texas teenagers during that much-revisited decade of hip huggers
and bell bottoms. The film is low key and funny without wallowing too
much in nostalgia. Like Linklater's earlier film, Slacker, characterization
prevails; it doesn't have much of a narrative structure and this is
one of its simple successes. Though the period fashions and the carefully-chosen
soundtrack are familiar on a national level, the local flavor is far
from buried. The importance of high school football and the vicious
initiation rights suffered by freshmen could be a lesson in regional
culture. UT film alumnus Matthew McConaughey makes only his second appearance
on celluloid here as Wooderson, the twenty-year-old high school hanger-on
ubiquitous to every hometown.
nother
last day of school movie -- this time it's high school, 1976 -- Dazed
and Confused offers an unpretentious day-in-the-life glimpse of
suburban Texas teenagers during that much-revisited decade of hip huggers
and bell bottoms. The film is low key and funny without wallowing too
much in nostalgia. Like Linklater's earlier film, Slacker, characterization
prevails; it doesn't have much of a narrative structure and this is
one of its simple successes. Though the period fashions and the carefully-chosen
soundtrack are familiar on a national level, the local flavor is far
from buried. The importance of high school football and the vicious
initiation rights suffered by freshmen could be a lesson in regional
culture. UT film alumnus Matthew McConaughey makes only his second appearance
on celluloid here as Wooderson, the twenty-year-old high school hanger-on
ubiquitous to every hometown. 
