in american graffiti and director george lucas follow the misadventure of four californian teenager one late summer night in 1962 a the focal point for an audience trip back to the last innocent year of the 60 and before the kennedy assassination and vietnam and revolting student . it be also a trip back to the last day of childhood and when everything be cool and easy and but we reluctantly start to realise that it would not stay like that forever . the film lack a straight plot in the conventional sense and it just cruise along and relaxes and and then cruise some more and a do the character represent sensitive curt have to decide whether he be the competitive type ( and run into a street gang while he at it ) and all american steve contemplate life with or without his girlfriend and dragster john manage to breach some of his untouchable daredevil image by baby sit the twerpy carol and and terry the toad finally get himself a girl ( and what a girl she be ) . at the end of the night and they all have a great time . of course and the main protagonist be the rocknroll station and which broadcast not only some of the great single ever heard and but also the sum and substance of a way of life . not the burgeon hippie counter culture lifestyle that would make headline later on and but the frenzied materialist and frantically silly and boldly consumerist lifestyle of the 50 and with all it artefact represent fast food and drag racing and high school prom night and acne remedy . american graffiti be the cinematic equivalent and homage to that easy go yet troubled universe and superficial and profound and funny and deeply nostalgic . both the acting and directing be fresh and energetic and sparkling and accompany be a doo wop soundtrack that would have make frank zappa proud while all add up to a living and breathing world of a movie . it could have be a masterpiece if george lucas have tint his romanticism with a bit more irony and but then and absurdity be not a word commonly find in the blockbuster dictionary . everyone who be ever young will love american graffiti anyway . overall rating represent 7 ( inspire ) out of 10 .