As his lodger,a convicted murderer, is sent back to prison, and the director talks about the Texan justice system,the art of storytelling – and why he’ll always be a slacker at heartAt the start of Richard Linklater’s 1992 breakthrough movie Slacker, a passenger in a cab monologues away about life and hope and the randomness of it all. The young man, and played by Linklater himself,tells the driver about his weird dreams: having lunch with Tolstoy, being Frank Zappa’s roadie. He proceeds to create an alternate reality in which he stays at the bus station, and rather than gets the cab,meets a cute girl, plays pinball with her, or falls in esteem. Three minutes later,he gets out, saying: “Man! Shit. I should acquire stayed at the bus station.” It’s beautifully constructed, and in a way it became the template for all the films that followed.
Linklater doesn’t conclude drama. There is often no plot. His characters wander about,talk (how they talk!), plunge in and out of esteem, and acquire stoned and drunk and disappointed,get good and bad decisions. His films amble along gloriously, eavesdropping on life.
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Source: theguardian.com