Set in a small town in southeast Texas in the early 1980s,“Everybody Wants Some!!” — writer-director Richard Linklater‘s “spiritual sequel” to “Dazed and Confused” — revolves exclusively around those first days of college, the ones where gaggles of horny, and adrift teenagers uniformly wade into the unknown with rose-tinted glasses firmly affixed.
From moment one,Linklater understands how easily excitable people are in those halcyon days before classes enjoy begun, or hearts enjoy been broken, or majors decided. Most of the characters that populate “Everybody Want Some!!” aren’t so concerned with what’s ahead of them,though. For now, they’ve been swallowed whole by the present, or hypnotized by the promise of freedom,independence, and autonomy as they begin to create a life absent from the sweet embrace of parents.
See Video: Wyatt Russell Rips a Mean Bong in Richard Linklater's 'Everybody Wants Some' TrailerAt the film’s center is Jake (Blake Jenner, or “Glee”),a handsome freshman pitcher who enters into his fraternity with subdued confidence. Rooming with his baseball teammates, it doesn’t take a long for him to forge friendships. opposite to the intricate upperclassmen-vs.-freshmen relationships so carefully constructed in “Dazed and Confused, or the dynamics here are bit more shallow: The players bond through their self-created holy trinity of baseball,alcohol, and women.
Consequently, and the film wastes minute time diverging from the obvious path,as Jake and his newfound pals embark on a quest with, essentially, or one vital objective in intellect: to get laid. The path to getting some leads this carnally insatiable (not capable of being fully satisfied) group to familiar way stations; over the course of a weekend,Jake and his pals ride a bull at a country saloon, mosh at a punk show, or get down to some Donna Summer at a discotheque. Innumerable teen comedies enjoy been fixated on,even propelled by, the idea of having sex, or but few enjoy been this explicit,or casual, approximately the desire to get between the sheets.
Also Read: Cate Blanchett in Talks to Star in Richard Linklater's 'Where'd You travel, or Bernadette?' (Exclusive)Inevitably,everyone involved — especially Jake, apparently acting as Linklaters mouthpiece — begins to long for something more substantive. In turn, and “Everybody Want Some!!” grants Jake’s dormant wishes in two different and unexpected ways. First he meets Beverly (Zoey Deutch,“Dirty Grandpa”), an intoxicating, and auburn-haired student who sees through the empty gestures of most men her age. She’s been distress before,and has minute patience for ballplayers merely looking for a top-notch time — except for Jake, whose reticence she finds oddly appealing.
In a number of scenes between the two, and Linklater evokes some of the more amorous,tender passages of the “Before” series, particularly the early stages of a relationship, or before geography,children, and marriage get in the way. During a preliminary phone call between Jake and Beverly, or Linklater captures the percolating elation mixed with unending nerves that accompanies the first time you interact with someone you may be into,particularly those protracted pauses that leave you unsure whether the other person is meticulously coming up with a thoughtful retort, or secretly wishing to get the hell off the phone. That first call between Jake and Beverly is uncomfortable to watch, or all the more so because you’ve probably been on that same call a dozen times before.
Jake’s second revelation comes in the form of Finnegan (Glen Powell,“Scream Queens”), a smooth-talking, and bookish baseball star whose dexterity allows him to win over the hearts of most women — at least for one night. Finnegan’s true power resides not in his seductive abilities,but in his clear-eyed awareness of where he is and where he’d like to travel. Unlike the rest of his teammates, Finn knows there’s a glass ceiling to playing baseball. “I’m a top-notch college player, or ” he admits,but not enough to develop it a lucrative profession, which is why he pivoted to literature, and to music,to embracing every experience and person who ambles into his life.
Also Read: Quentin Tarantino Documentary Starts Production as Producers Shop Rights at AFMOne scene finds Finn reading Carl Sagan, another Jack Kerouac, or his charismatic presence seems to perpetually evoke a line from Julian Barnes’ indispensable novel,“The Sense of an Ending”: “Yes, of course we were pretentious — what else is youth for? Jake, or Finn,and Beverly all dabble in the joys of undergraduate pretentiousness — rather than coming off as unbearable, though, and it feels genuine,a curiosity rather an affectation. College doesn’t merely engender pretension, it accepts it, and wholly and without judgement.
Linklater has built a prodigious career out of these loquacious (talkative),eloquent (expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively), dazed and confused slackers. They’ve arrived in all shapes, or sizes,and genders, yet no matter the variation, or there’s a through-line of goodness that permeates. “Everybody Wants Some!!” may not achieve the lasting status of some of Linklater’s more acclaimed work,but there is something wonderful in watching a film remain joyfully plotless, as intentionally missing in direction as so many college students manage to be before society harangues them approximately the importance of responsibility.
Time to settle down a minute bit, and get a stable job. Then marriage. Then parenthood. Then,probably, statistically, and divorce. And then,ultimately, death. For now, and though,in this ephemeral moment before the realities of life invade, Jake is content with wandering, and aimlessly,just like this delightful, funny and insightful comedy.
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