The Movie: Clerks, directed by Kevin Smith
Recommendation: Me!
Reason: I'm a fan of Kevin Smith's work, ever since I saw Dogma. Clerks makes me smile a lot.
It's obvious, on scrutiny, that Clerks is a student film. The acting is not great, except in a few select cases. The film technique is pretty solid, with a few inspired shots. The script is a little...lofty, being that it's a movie about a convenience store clerk, modeled after The Divine Comedy.
Brian O'Halloran, Jeff Anderson and Jason Mewes are the key to the reason this film is so popular. Without O'Halloran and Anderson's chemistry, Clerks wouldn't have made it out of festival showings. Jason Mewes' appearance as Jay made the movie the cult classic is it today. Though the whole cast gives it their best shot, these three are the best actors in the bunch.
Kevin Smith's primary strength seems to be his script. It's funny, philosophical and twisted in strange and bizarre ways. He creates interesting, human characters and puts them into the weird sorts of situations clerks often find themselves in. Every store has its milkmaids and egg sorters. I think it's the empathy Smith develops, more than anything else.
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