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Week of July 15, 2016
Hammocks let you sleep outside without
feeling like a vagrant. First up…
The Divergent Series: Allegiant
The problem with a society run by teenagers
is that all essential services would cease during July and August.
Fortunately, the young folk in this sci-fi
film have no idea what summer vacation is.
Resistance supporter Tris (Shailene
Woodley) refuses leadership of the opposition for a chance to explore outside
her post-apocalyptic home.
Along with some friends (Theo James, Ansel
Elgort, Miles Teller, Zoë Kravitz), Tris is eventually captured by the Bureau
head honcho (Jeff Daniels) and told of the genetic war that led to the social
factions that control her and her friends’ fates.
The first instalment of the final chapter,
this third entry in the dystopian series is also the worst. Continuing the
uninspired storyline and the wooden acting of previous segments, Allegiant ups
the ante with some B-movie quality special effects and embarrassing green
screen work.
Moreover, teenagers hate being classified
unless it’s them classifying themselves.
Red Light
Everybody Wants Some!!
College puts an end to high school factions
by categorizing everyone as alcoholic.
Case in point, the plastered freshmen in
this comedy.
While Jake (Blake Jenner) was a big-deal
pitcher in high school in college he’s just another rookie there to be razzed
by his teammates (Ryan Guzman, Temple Baker, Glen Powell, Quinton Johnson).
Before classes start up the team takes Jake
out on the town with them where they introduce him to college’s diverse party
scene. Along the way he meets a cute coed (Zoey Deutch).
Evoking the nostalgia of going away to
school through a cast of eccentric characters that one could encounter in a
post-secondary, writer-director Richard Linklater utilizes his green leads to
construct a convincing campus where he can insert his subtle lessons about
becoming an adult.
In fact, college gives you those tools you
need to get a job to pay off your student loan.
Green Light
***Power to the Pimple***
Wild in the Streets
The problem with teenagers voting is that
they loiter around the ballot box afterwards.
However, the adolescents in this musical
are more apt to through a dance party.
Subversive since infancy, Max Frost
(Christopher Jones) now fronts a successful rock group of astute teens (Richard
Pryor, Kevin Coughlin, Diane Varsi) that Senator Fergus (Hal Holbrook) would
like to partner with.
But before he’ll endorse the policymaker,
Frost wants Fergus to lower the voting age to 14, or else Frost’s fans will
riot.
Eventually, Frost uses LSD to win the US
presidency and send everyone over 30 to internment camps.
An outlandish cautionary tale about the
social tensions affecting sixties youth, this cult classic may have some trippy
ideas and seriously catching tunes, but its message of dissent is drowned out
by all its bell-bottomed kitsch.
Regardless, what good is the vote at 14 if
you can’t go binge drink afterwards?
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