I have had as interesting a life as the writer depicted in this film. The Hollywood pretension is absent here, the bad dialogue, the wooden acting, the A to Z story line--all missing from this achievement that takes characters from the 2010s and uses them as metaphors for all generations. From 1988 through 1997, the year I effectively divorced myself from American society, I knew people just like the ones depicted here. Psychic vampires, lost young women, lesbian couples, bi-sexuals, Cholos, you name it. The story here is seamless and offers up surprise after surprise, most of them being out-and-out breaks in stereotype. Oh, and I lived in Hollywood--it's where I grew up, so I'm not one of the people of the world who hate that city without ever going there. In fact, I don't hate it at all. If there ever were a melting pot for the entire world which at the same time was filled with lost, lonely children needing love more than their next meal, then L.A. wins the prize--and this film reveals the city in a way that I never thought possible through one director's eye.
Review of Locating Silver Lake
