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Essay Archive - Richard Linklater: Man of Youth
Richard Linklater: Man of Youth
I had recently seen Dazed and Confused on the USA Network. First
of all my Dad thought I was weird because that was the first time I saw it.
Secondly he told me it would be better uncut, on video. I liked how it
dealt with disfunctional youth. Suburbia also looked like it dealt with the
same stuff and I would have liked to have watched Slacker, but it was not
at the store.
Richard Linklater liked to work with stories of younger people.
Dazed and Confused showed how youth in the mid seventies used drugs and
alcohol to forget about their real life. Suburbia showed youth, but in the
nineties. The ch....
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