SLACKER directed by Richard Linklater (USA, 1991)
Two definitions from Urban Dictionary :
SLACKER – Someone who puts off doing things to the last minute, and when the last minutes comes, decides it wasn’t all that important anyways and forgets about it.
SLACKERS – a group of guys who like to hang out and do nothing.
Two typical conversations from ‘Slacker’, the movie:
Q – What’s up man? A – Not much OR
Q – Hey, what’s going on? A – Nothing
‘Slacker’ follows the day in the life of a cast of youths in Austin, Texas who share the ability to turn idleness into an art form and who are content to spend their days “lolligagging around” or just vaguely hanging out.
One prefers to stay home rather than go out to the lake because he hates the idea of “premeditated fun”. Another can’t decide if he is remembering something that happened to him or whether he saw it on TV. Continue reading
