{"id":4854,"date":"2012-05-09T14:59:15","date_gmt":"2012-05-09T18:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=4854"},"modified":"2012-05-09T14:59:15","modified_gmt":"2012-05-09T18:59:15","slug":"dvd-slc-punk-1998","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=4854","title":{"rendered":"DVD: SLC Punk! (1998)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"<\/a>Film: Very Good\/ DVD Transfer: Very Good\/ DVD Extras: Very Good<\/p>\n

Label: Sony \/ Region: 1 (NTSC) \/\u00a0Released:\u00a0June 5, 2001<\/p>\n

Genre: Drama \/ Comedy<\/p>\n

Synopsis: Two Salt Lake City punk rockers \/ anarchists come to grasp with adulthood.<\/p>\n

Special Features: \u00a0Audio Commentray with writer \/ director James Merendino and cast \/ Trailers<\/p>\n

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Review:<\/p>\n

SLC Punk!<\/strong> just manages to rise above rival rebel youth films because of Matthew Lillard\u2019s skillful performance as a likeable eighties punk with spiky blue hair and friends in need of Prozac prescriptions.<\/p>\n

Once a D&D nerd, Stevo (Lillard) joins his compatriot Heroine Bob (Michael Goorjian) in what he claims is the only true punk organization in Salt Lake City, Utah: two young men, fresh from high school, and prone to wacky mood swings. The problem is Stevo and Bob are quite co-dependent, and as their friends start to think about careers and other life streams in or outside of their much-hated conservative city & state, they\u2019re feeling a little directionless, which starts to erode their confidence as committed anarchists in a world where people just think they\u2019re ridiculous.<\/p>\n

Writer \/ director James Merendino doesn\u2019t offer anything new to the genre, but there are some dynamic philosophical exchanges and monologues, and he gives Lillard plenty of space to extol observations as the punk life is starting to unwind. The film is told through Stevo\u2019s narration, which begets little smash-cut flashbacks, and most characters are shown doing at least one extreme thing before they either bow out of the picture, or step away from the narrative.<\/p>\n

Merendino\u2019s pacing is energetic, and the editing style isn\u2019t classic ADD, which ensures the actors have room to breathe onscreen. Secondary and tertiary characters \u2013 like Stevo\u2019s corporate sell-out dad (Christopher McDonald) also have their moments, and it\u2019s a lean film that manages to avoid maudlin melodrama by adding absurd humour at just the right juncture.<\/p>\n

SLC Punk<\/strong> could be regarded as a variation of Brett Easton Ellis\u2019 Less Than Zero<\/strong> (1987) \u2013 parallels include a central tragic figure that forces the cliquish group to redefine themselves after posing and living pretentiously for the last while \u2013 but it\u2019s never ugly or sadistic, and any violence borders on cartoon. Lillard always makes sure Stevo is well aware of the surrounding ironies, and small reactions allow his character remains three-dimensional.<\/p>\n

Sony\u2019s DVD features a sharp transfer with punchy surround sound, and includes a director & cast commentary and standard trailer gallery.<\/p>\n

Matthew Lillard would direct his own version of rebellious youth in his film version of K.L. Going\u2019s novel Fat Kid Rules the World<\/a> <\/strong>[M<\/a>] (2012).<\/p>\n

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\u00a9 2012 Mark R. Hasan<\/p>\n

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External References<\/em>:<\/p>\n

IMDB <\/a>— Soundtrack Album<\/a><\/p>\n

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