Slacker



Slacker is an experimental film by Richard Linklater in which the camera gravitates to a different group of people in every scene. Highly influential in the independent scene, it inspired Kevin Smith to make Clerks.

Slacker was added to the National Film Registry in 2012.

Differs from The Slacker.


 * Cool Old Guy: The  Spanish Civil War veteran anarchist.
 * Creator Cameo: The first character is played by Richard Linklater.
 * Decoy Protagonist: It starts with a bus passenger and doesn't stop.
 * Defiled Forever: While the implications of what led to the Madness Mantra entry are tragic, they're offset by the comic appropriateness of the last sentence coming from a Looney Tunes short where a dissociative Elmer Fudd repeats the line.
 * Developing Doomed Characters: The entire film.
 * Follow the Leader: Inspired by My Dinner with Andre.
 * Hyperlink Story: Each scene passes off to the next one via a shared shot between the characters of each.
 * Loads and Loads of Characters: Over a hundred unnamed characters.
 * Madness Mantra: "You should quit, you should quit, you should quit, you should quit..."
 * The Oner
 * Slice of Life
 * Trust Me, I'm a Doctor: "You should quit traumatizing women with sexual intercourse. I should know. I'm a medical doctor. I own a mansion and a yacht."