Ah, the suburbs. That wasteland to which white people move so that they don't have to live around ethnic folks. It's hard to tell whether movies usually idealize the suburbs or trash them, but "SubUrbia" certainly does the latter. Portraying several people's empty lives in an unidentified suburban land - although I assumed that it was LA; it was plastic enough to be LA - they pull no punches here. One of the aspects is that you can see how they treat the one ethnic person (Ajay Naidu). But what can you say about the suburbs (except maybe that they're a hell on Earth)? Anyway, Richard Linklater was showing some of the skills that he later brought to "Waking Life". This is a movie worth seeing. Also starring Nicky Katt, Parker Posey, Giovanni Ribisi and Steve Zahn.
Review of SubUrbia
