Clerks (1994)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 1994
	Director: Kevin Smith (Chasing Amy, Tusk, Mallrats)
	Actors: Brian O'Halloran & Jeff Anderson (Clerks 2), Marilyn Ghigliotti
	Country: USA
	Genre: Comedy
	Conditions of visioning: 09.07.2016, VOD, 10" tablet screen
Synopsis: A Sunday in the life of Dante and Randall (O'Halloran & Anderson), young clerks in respectively a convenient store and its neighbour video rental store.
Review: This is the first movie directed by the king of nerds Kevin Smith, which he decided to shoot just because he thought he could and nobody else was doing it, as you can learn from watching some of his one-man shows like Too Fat for 40. He did it with a handful of non-professional actors, a minimalistic set, an apparently empty story, limited video equipment and cinematographic knowledge, but a huge talent for dialogs. And it is those dialogs either crude (sexually) or referential to other movies that pleased a rapidly growing geek community at the time, and made the movie a classic. Dante and Randall are just two guys barely out of school and starting to work for a living but not really knowing where they are going, well especially Dante which we hear complaining throughout the whole movie until the final awakening by his best friend. I have heard Kevin Smith tell that Clerks is really about being in one's twenties while Clerks 2 is the same about one's thirties and the upcoming Clerks 3 will be about the forties. He is not planning on keeping that up for longer. And let's not forget the secondary characters of Jay and Silent Bob (played by Smith himself) which became so loved that they appear in other Smith's movies (the ones taking place in the View Askewniverse as it is called) and even have one of their own (Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back). I like to watch Clerks once in a while, and as it progresses always remember how the story is not empty after all, but deals with real preoccupations of the people of that age, and deals with them in their terms, much more than any mainstream movies of the time, and that's what makes it so special.
Rating: 8 /10