i be of the opinion that it will take hollywood ( and everyone else for that matter ) at least ten year to catch up to what gregg araki be do . his film be the most progressive and challenging and cut edge and darkest be make . nowhere be one of my favorite . i also love doom generation and mysterious skin ( splendor isn not bad but it isn not one of my favorite ) . nowhere be essentially ( for me and anyway ) a simple story about high school life among a bunch of kid tell through hyperbole . everything be stretch out and exaggerated and hyper expose and draw out and reveal . it be very much like high school a i remember it . color be three time a bright and everyone move three time a fast . car fly everywhere . the music be bright and loud and jar . there be lot and drug and drinking . everyone be constantly go somewhere or come from someplace . it a world on the brink of total disaster . and a world that be desperately searching and ache for love and tenderness . someone else be correct when they say it be like an lsd trip . video vision of an lsd world . the basic plot be simple . four or five different story involve teen who know each other play themselves out over a 24 hr period and american graffiti style . bart and cowboy be a queer couple who be also in a band together . bart spiral heroin use threaten their relationship . egg and dingbat be nerdy best girl friend . dingbat be in love with egg virginal brother ducky . egg have a chance encounter in a cafe with a television idol dreamboat that seem too good to be true and and in fact and be . ( encounter in this movie begin innocently and turn nightmarish ) . dark be a brooding young video obsessional ( and the film main character ) who want simplicity in his relationship with girlfriend mel and a raving hedonist who pursue sex with anyone and include vicious lesbian lucifer . dark secretly have thought about anxiety ridden schoolmate montgomery and who seem to like him back . mel young brother zero be desperate to impress his girlfriend zoe and and assure her he know where the big party all the high schoolers be go to that night ( zero and zoe seem to be junior high age ) . it start with everyone ditch school and go to a sleazy cafe where there be forebode whisper of that day be the predestined date of the apocalypse . there also talk of the big party later . then everyone go their separate way and have adventure ( most of which be fairly grim in a cool way ) . recur character pop in and out the drug dealer who supply bart as well a the two ultra violent s and m girl he pimp ( dark fantasize over them ) and a giant scaly alien from out space with a ray gun who wander in to blast teenager from time to time ( this also may be the key to the apocalypse talk ) and and a soapy televangelist with an 800 number who actually become the key to the film point . that be another matter . some will say this film do not have a point . i disagree . the point to this film be in it texture and in the ultimate fate of bart and egg . i believe araki be make a statement about modern kid . i do not believe this be lose among the nihilism either . it also have to do with the song that be play over the end credit . that be my take or . i be not sure what high school be like for everyone else but for me it certainly wasn not anything like 90210 or gilmore girl or dawson creek . not at all . i remember intense fight and disappointment and intense romance . heartbreak . all of the stuff that be cover in this movie plus alien abduction . what more could you want .