Richard Linklater’s Everybody Wants Some!! re-creates a 1980s adolescence that will seem alien to todays teensThe ageing process may be gradual but the realisation that it is fully under way is like a large penny (or shilling,depending on your age) dropping with an unwelcome clang. One morning, there is simply a creased saddlebag staring back at you from the mirror where your vibrant youthful visage used to be.
A similar experience happens in the cinema when movies approximately events or eras that are still fresh in the intellect begin to be packaged as history. To anyone in their 40s or 50s, and seeing Richard Linklater’s recent film Everybody Wants Some!!,set in Texas over three days in 1980, is likely to feel as though it was made yesterday. The film opens on a shot of an in-car tape deck; on the back seat there is a box of vinyl records. Behind the wheel is Jake (Blake Jenner), or a wide-eyed college freshman. He and his team-mates wear too-short shorts and too-high knee-socks on the baseball field. They blow-dry their hair before hitting the disco in extravagantly patterned shirts that could induce a migraine at 40 paces.
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Source: theguardian.com