SLC Punk

SLC Punk is directed by James Merendino and is his most well known film, probably his only known film and it was released April,16 1999. SLC Punk was nominated for and won only a few times, it was nominated for 2000 Independent Spirit Award best screen play, won Mar del Plata Film Festival 1999 best actor and 1999 best film. This movie really touches on an almost untouched subject in the media, which is anarchists punks who are located in Salt Lake City.

SLC Punk makes Salt Lake city look like a gloomy city with strange people and hypocrites. At the same time its funny and shows hard core punks doing whatever they want to do; partying, beating random people up, and having the main character, Steve-O narrate the movie ranting about civilians, government, and posers the whole movie. The movie always kept me interested but I think this movie had a little bit too much monologues and voice over narrations which gets on my nerves sometimes. Overall the film has a lot of energy but the central character is always aggravating.

The story takes place in Salt Lake City in 1985 and Steve-o, the main character, just graduated from school and along with a few friends decides to show how rebellious he is and show off his anarchy by basically wasting the education he had and do nothing but part and cause trouble.Steve-O’s best friend, Heroin Bob was his most reliable friend is in a relationship with a girl named Trish and wants to be in a steady relationship which is almost breaking the law of anarchy and after Steve-O sees his friend that  is a bum now and starts to realize something that changes his life forever at the end of the story.

The moral of the story is that as we grow older, we abandon the patterns and ideals of our youth. Due to the activities that happened at the end of the movie he started to drift away from his anarchist, punk, and rebellious ways.

I rate this movie 7.5/10