people share their random thought a they walk through their life and chat at coffee shop and and preach on street corner . everybody get a theory and they seem to have a suspiciously nihilistic throughline represent it the 90 and all the good reason for get out of the house have be use up by the anarchist and the radical and and the rooftop sniper . a we meet dozen of character in thinly connect vignette and we get a vivid picture of a time and a place and and a group of people . a richard linklater himself say in the opening monologue and all the choice that we make in our life create alternate reality spin off into space and form by the possibility that we could have make a different choice and thereby create a different future . deep . oh yes . be life really like this . definitely . we meet someone in a convenience store for two minute and get a picture of their life and formulate some question about them and and then and poof and theyre go and and you never know what happen and just a we never know what happen to the boy who run down his mother and the couple who weren not on the guest list and the roommate who disappear and or any of the other character in slacker . but be it worth a movie . open question and as far a i be concern . with such a string of unanswered question and the audience eventually tire and refuse to invest emotionally in anything and know that they will be and once again and leave hanging . sure and life be just like that and but and like andy warhol day long film of the empire state building and the experiment might be well in theory ( and in one of the coffee table conversation so prevalent in slacker ) than in practice .