Hello Future. It's Been Nice Knowing You.

Andrew Bujalski's Mutual Appreciation (2005). The kids are alright. They just wanna have somethin to do. Alan (Justin Rice) is either the most articulate inarticulate person ever, or else the most inarticulate articulate one. When he's on the stage at the club, it's pure beauty, an archive of a moment in history that never happened:

After this, there's no going back. But then, the scene with the girls with wigs stages a near coup, and the whole movie is almost overthrown. Alan and the girl with the wig, right out of Casavetes. They could be characters from Faces, dressed as if they were in a future movie trying to look like they were in a period film from the 1960s:

The past and future are all mixed up in this film. There's that concert scene that's like CBGBs and then the wig scene reminds you of the 1960s. Shot in black and white on 16 mm, it also reminds you of the future, or the future's lament for our digital era.

Hello future. And goodbye.

 

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