Where is the Movie for this generation?

I was thinking the other day that the problem with this generation is that there is no movie for this generation - no film that captures the sheer "essence" of what it means to be young at this point in time.

Look, the 60's generation had The Graduate - that paean to restless youth entering into the world of adulthood, looking straight into the heart of some "plastic" (i.e. meaningless) void. And the final, rejection of it, symbolized by riding off on a bus bound for who knows where.









The 80's had The Breakfast Club - that ode to youth who were much better off than they knew they were, and that realization that even though we all have different masks that we put on to take on the world, underneath everything we're all scared spitless of what our responsibilities are, so let's take it day by day and maybe we'll be friends tomorrow and maybe we won't but either way, our defiance is in the knowledge that authority will never really have control over our spirit . . . and in that way we are truly free.

But this decade, this generation . . . I can't really find anything. No movie that is so symbolic of our youth that it in future years it will stand as the most succinct definition of this place and time.

Hm..

The only thing that possibly keeps coming to mind . . .


is Superbad.





VG