Dazed and Confused
Directed by Richard LinklaterIt's the last day of school at a high school in a small town in Texas in 1976. The upperclassmen are hazing the incoming freshmen, and everyone is trying to get stoned, drunk, or laid, even the football players that signed a pledge not to.
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Dazed and Confused Ratings & Reviews
- MichalApril 26, 2025I keep getting older, the movie stays the same ;)
- mickerdooJune 29, 2025The high school experience from the 70s that rings true for generations to come. All kinds of people just looking to live life.
- PeakedApril 26, 2025Raw, next question.
- Oliver ReznikMay 7, 2025Dazed and Confused has me feeling nostalgia for a time I never experienced. It's a no plot, sort of "check out these characters talking a lot" movie. Not super funny or suspenseful. But it was still fun. It brings you back to the exciting and ridiculous social dynamics you experienced in high school in a very authentic and insightful package. You just don't get these kinds of social dynamics in adult life anymore, probably for the best, but it's nice to have a window to those feelings. Dazed and Confused captures your attention with its huge cast characters, allowing it to skillfully move from one setting and set of characters to the next with perfect timing. It has lots of interesting, but very high school, scenarios condensed into a tight package. It has quite a bit of salaciousness and violence to give it some edge. The movie focuses on new freshman and new seniors. This is a clever move that allows it to create a narrative out of the cycle of growth and coming of age through peer pressure. We see freshmen trying to play their own games of sex, mischief, and being cool. Then we see the seniors playing those games in a different, more developed way. And we see how the seniors guide these freshmen down a path to become the new seniors, eventually. A self-perpetuating cycle. Dazed and Confused gives you an interesting world to revisit and live in for a little while. It's great that it's a period piece of the director's own nostalgic time in high school. I think that gives it a timelessness. Also, a timelessness in that there are simply some constants in the high school experience.
- RyezooFebruary 20, 2025A movie I finally got around to seeing! A fun watch with a great cast of characters. The movie just exists and rotates from story to story and there's no real arching plot other than the basis of becoming seniors/freshman. This film doesn't need that though. The soundtrack is killer and the cinematographer is fantastic. Richard Linklater is a awesome director
- robvuliDecember 1, 2024Old school fun
