Tuesday, February 21, 2012

SLC Punk! is a fucking great film.

Holy shit, this film. I've never thought this film would be as good as it actually is. I watched it today and it was brilliant.

You need to watch this film. I especially love the line drawn between fashion and real anarchism. I've had this problem with people who dress the part, but don't fight for the causes that are sprawled across their shirts. Just like the 21st century so-called hippies who don fucking peace signs on their shirts, bracelets, and earrings with a pair of military pants all purchased from Forever 21. Go fuck yourself, kids.

And the irony. Oh, the irony. I love how in the end, in order to fight the system, Stevo must destroy it from the inside out. How ironic that the "last real punk" of Utah ended up working for the system because it was his last way to at least piss off parts of the system.

This whole film also marks the naivety of kids going through a phase that we have all gone through. There comes a line between a rebellious age and the realness of being an anarchist. As far as most kids have the balls to do, the closest thing to anarchy is breaking a couple windows and moving out of their parents' house until the recession fucks them up and they admit defeat by moving back in.

However, there will never be real clearance of what makes a real anarchist, is there? Especially from someone like me? What the fuck do I know about anarchism? Just because I watched a few fucking films about a couple punks? Actually, ignore everything. I'm just rambling by now.

This film can't be summed up easily. It's much more fun to watch than write about it.

There's something deeper here that's missing and I deleted a whole entire part in here because I got way too political. I'm not gonna sit here and talk about politics. Mainly it's because I'm not really too secure about talking about politics. Sometimes you gotta be Goddamned accurate with your facts with political shit and I for sure am not gonna do the research.

I think this film speaks for itself, so you have to watch it to at least know what I mean and why I can't just talk about it without getting into deep detail.

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