SLC Punk! Page #2

Synopsis: Two punks live in Salt Lake City. The film covers their all-day routine. The realism of the character-narrated movie may be discussed. One of the punks gets ill, stays in hospital for three weeks, comes out again. Three parties are covered and one concert including a fight between punks, rednecks and others.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Director(s): James Merendino
Production: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
  2 wins & 6 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.5
Metacritic:
50
Rotten Tomatoes:
63%
R
Year:
1998
97 min
Website
1,870 Views


Put your hands in the air

and slowly turn around.

- I'm saved! I'm saved!

- Put your hands up!

Yeah, sure, Sean.

You're saved.

I said put your hands in the air.

Chemicals, man.

They'll f*** you up.

I always wondered what happened

to that crazy little sh*t.

It's a crazy tucked-up world...

and we're all just barely

floatin' along...

waitin' for somebody

that can walk on water.

Bob was like that...

a real a**hole when it came

to reading into things.

He liked to wrap things up into neat

little packages that implied the world.

See, Sean was f***ed up.

Not the world.

The world was just confused.

And not the world, really.

Just the people in it.

Bob was confused.

And more, Bob was paranoid as f***.

That's right.

Bob was in quarantine.

The doctor said that Bob's infection

was so bad...

that it had become a lethal virus.

And so he was under quarantine

for some weeks.

It was the beginning of the fall

and the rest of our lives.

We both graduated college

and were taking summer classes...

a major feat, since our aim in college

was to be as destructive as possible.

Our mission, after leaving high school

as two aspiring young punks...

I think the only two punks

in Salt Lake City at the time...

was to go to university

and bring down the system.

Why? Well, for obvious reasons.

Anarchy... the only system of government

that seemed to make any sense to us.

And the irony was we had made it

through. I did well, even.

My father was hell-bent on getting me to

go to Harvard Law School, like he did.

My father tried to get me to go

right after I graduated high school.

Thank you for giving us

an hour ot your time.

Your mother and I tound this

to be rather important.

You finished high school.

Thank God.

And now it's your time to do good.

This rebellion thing

you're going through, I understand it.

Not completely,

but I respect it.

Now you should think about

what is right for you.

I mean, be free, darling, always.

Yeah. Be practical, Steve.

You got a chance to go to Harvard.

You've got me as an alumnus.

- That can't hurt.

- But only it it makes you happy.

Look, if you want to rebel there,

you can do it. I went to Woodstock.

Me and the guys had a lot ot fun.

We did our thing there.

We got behind some causes, though.

We tought tor some

very strong causes.

We ended, collectively,

we ended that goddamn war in 'Nam...

so that guys like you

could be tree.

There's all these possibilities

for you, Steven. Carry the torch now.

Okay? I can see by looking at you

that you're ready.

- I'm proud that you're an individual.

- Very proud.

So proud.

One thing.

This may not be easy to hear,

but the hair.

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James Merendino

James Anthony Merendino (born January 11, 1966) is an American film director and screenwriter who is best known for directing the 1998 film SLC Punk!. more…

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