The Last Days of Disco

The latest of whit stilman’s movies. It’s much the same as his others – Metropolitan & Barcelona. It even ties together with Barcelona… sort of. It’s about a bunch of privileged rich kids who are just out of college. They spend their nights in the disco (during disco’s last days of course), and their days struggling with their lives (jobs, apartments, VD). What makes this movie (and whit’s other movies) so watchable isn’t the plot, it’s the dialogue. I find it hard to believe that anyone really talks like the characters in this movie (even ivy leaguers) unless they’re reading a script. It just feels good to hear all that useless wisdom and chitter-chatter being dispensed so eloquently.

 

Kids

It’s the new millennium, do you know where your kids are? Maybe they’re doing drugs, having sex, beating people up, and forming their own “society”. The scary thing is that there are probably kids out there just like those in this movie. The scarier thing is that one day they’ll grow up and have kids of their own. If you were shocked by this movie, then it did its job.