4) Tape
[youtube]https://youtu.be/R0TDvYBW41U[/youtube]
Richard Linklater is undoubtedly an accomplished and versatile filmmaker, ranging from Bad News Bears to Waking Life. Boyhood is easily his most overrated movie (peer pressure over a beer in the basement? how dumb) but Tape is his most unseen and unappreciated. It’s one of those dialogue-heavy ones, the kind that could just as easily be a play as it could a movie. It explores the conflict we face when we allow one word so much value, while it’s meaning spread so far: rape. The film follows two high school friends reconnected by one of their ambitions of the other’s demise. It says a lot about how we use other people’s successes and failures as a value system for our own and how obsession for control can be destructive for everyone. If you enjoyed the Before trilogy, it’s very similar but in a much darker frame of mind.
