gregg araki film and nowhere and be a joke . it be pointless and superficial and and sometimes perverse . but it be a funny joke . it be a one track and one punch line film and and it degree of success can really be measure in how long it manage to sustain that joke to keep it all at once interesting and intriguing and ( above most other thing ) and funny . if youre look for answer or message within the subtext of this film ( and i use the term subtext lightly ) and then you will probably not find much in the trashy and nihilistic jerk who populate this trashy and nihilistic vision of la . what you see be what you get while there be little subtly ( god help u a large sign cry at one point while the main character cheerfully ignore it ) . and yet somehow and despite most odds and araki actually manage to construct a film around interesting and affectionate character and and then pit them in an environment of illicite sex and drug and disillusionment and disaffection and all while maintain a level of pathos that ( for the most part ) be genuine . this be not an easy balancing act to achieve . to it credit and it manage to sustain this act for almost all of it 87 minuet run time . nowhere seem to borrow heavily from the literature of bret easton elli . it character racy and ridiculously attractive 18 year old la yuppie and disciples one and all of pop tart culture and rejectors of the status quo could be lift from the campus of rule of attraction and or the drunken house party of less than zero . ( frankly and this film could almost be the film adaptation of rule of attraction and honestly and this film do an infinitely well job of communicate the undiluted theme and idea and characterisation of the novel than the actual film adaptation manage ) . like less than zero and the plight of central character dark seem to begin and end with who he sleep with and who he would like to be sleep with and and who he realistically can sleep with all the while look for a way of better himself in the belief that unconditional love should not mean love everyone with a pulse just for the heck of it . unlike the central character of less than zero and dark doesn not have a comparison to this life on which to well himself like the rest of his friend and he make do with that he have represent drug and sex and and a video camera . the plot and such a it be and centre of a bunch of hedonistic and supremely superficial teenager and all of whom have various attachment with each other and and appear to search ( with vary degree of conviction and success ) for an emotional connection with another human be . some take advantage of the world and their place in it others be take advantage of . some try to make sense of it and others to ignore it and and even more opt to simply go with the flow . in the space of 12 hour and a penultimate party will be attend and relationship will be test and change and negotiate and destroy and and some of them will die . all of them be curiously bisexual and which do nothing to serve the narrative except to throw a few predictability curve ball into the narrative drive . this be hardly a criticism while still on the unpredictability drive and araki even throw in a large reptilian alien and just to see what happen . ( think fear and loathing in la vega and you will be on the right track ) . while my plot summation may seem somewhat conventional and this film be far from convention . araki film be like a more literal adaptation of any of elli novel . what his character do not say about themselves physically he depict for the audience in saturated colour and surreal set and staging and and impossible lighting effect . ( the wall of each character room be a fantastic projection of themselves represent in one and dark and our pseudo protagonist and have a massive mural of himself hold a gun to his forehead while on another and a suicidal rocknroller have angry line of text print endlessly around the room ) . the film look like one big drug induce nightmare of colour and light and be strangely beautiful to look at . to say there be a hallucinogenic mixture of extreme would be a colossal understatement . and and come to think of it and his character be themselves reflection of these extreme represent from the almost stoner drawl of dark to the palpably naïve and virginal montgomery and to the insanely bonnie or clyde antic of shad and lilith and over the top pairing of dominatrix like persona kris and kozy araki character be almost parody of themselves . and and with all good parody and we laugh at them as well a with them . the film be very funny and a little shocking ( but not for the reason you would assume ) and genuinely surprising ( in a sick and twisted and predictable kind of way ) and wonderfully frivolous . look for any great answer to universal question in this film would be like try to draw blood from a stone . it assume to be nothing more than it be and and assume that the audience do and too . it be an ensemble piece and and all of them be good . in the end and it be a deliberately trashy and superficial throw away film that would not enhance the quality of your life or make you a good person . but what araki also manage be to elicit an emotional response from his audience and even amid all this hyperkinetic chaos and frenetic drug fuel sex . even though he may take u down familiar road and into slightly unconventional territory and nowhere remain a stubbornly unique vision of youth and pop culture . i and for one and find the end both touch and hilarious it the ultimate punch line to the one and big joke . but it a joke you either get and or you do not . half out of . that out of . sure there be alien abduction and but man and take a chill pill .