Slacker

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Slacker is an experimental film by Richard Linklater in which the camera gravitates to a different group of people in every scene.

Differs from The Slacker.

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Tropes used in Slacker include:

• Cool Old Guy: The fake 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
• 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."