Wow, I can only imagine what that must've been like as a first rental, especially being from a conservative background! It's certainly quite the picture of NYC.
I can't remember my first rental, but I do recall that the first move I saw on cable was Slap Shot, and that with the whole family, and we were all bowled over by the level of cursing. I can still remember all the nervous of my parents at every "f" word.
I was really glad to see Liquid Sky, finally - it was one of those college co-op films that I'd meant to get to, and didn't, and always had it in the back of my mind to check out later. And I wasn't disappointed - aside from the visuals, which were very OMG-'80s-fashion-I-remember-that-Interview-magazine-style-gear!, and the loopy electronic soundtrack, the three things that made the biggest impression on me were the performance-art monologue "you're dead, you you go to hell," the one where the main character paints her face flourescent and says "I was taught to be androgynous... now I'm as androgynous as David Bowie himself" and the general deadpan monotone delivery of the main character in all situations. You really got this picture of the drug scene as being incredibly ...numbing. Which I guess was the point.
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I can't remember my first rental, but I do recall that the first move I saw on cable was Slap Shot, and that with the whole family, and we were all bowled over by the level of cursing. I can still remember all the nervous of my parents at every "f" word.
I was really glad to see Liquid Sky, finally - it was one of those college co-op films that I'd meant to get to, and didn't, and always had it in the back of my mind to check out later. And I wasn't disappointed - aside from the visuals, which were very OMG-'80s-fashion-I-remember-that-Interview-magazine-style-gear!, and the loopy electronic soundtrack, the three things that made the biggest impression on me were the performance-art monologue "you're dead, you you go to hell," the one where the main character paints her face flourescent and says "I was taught to be androgynous... now I'm as androgynous as David Bowie himself" and the general deadpan monotone delivery of the main character in all situations. You really got this picture of the drug scene as being incredibly ...numbing. Which I guess was the point.