i do not know what prompt the praise for this movie . maybe it be a forerunner of a genre where the offbeat vignette of a disaffected generation be to reflect normal day to day reality . the fact be i really enjoy the offbeat and quirky and dark comedy and but give me a break in other word and give me some sort of plot or character development . be that too much to ask . although this film have a few amusing moment and some well observed take on the not quite sane and i could experience the same by take a walk downtown or rid the subway . there be many quasi intellectual idea raise by many of the character and but to what end . be the point of the film that there be no point and and if so and what the point of that . and i be to believe that an elderly store owner be go to take a space out youth who just hold him up at gunpoint under his wing and treat him a a son . the film do this in a 5 minute sequence and leave u bemuse and frustrate and leave the character and like all the others in the film and to disappear into oblivion . i much prefer linklater later film and suburbia it too be about young people with no particular goal and but it be about something represent the character have depth and interact and and go through significant exploration and discovery . i be glad i saw it before slacker because otherwise i wouldn not have bother . rating represent negative .