Anarene is a small town in Texas full of hopelessness and boredom. We watch the high school kids go through different rites of passage; mainly sex and death. Everyone’s so wound up in themselves, they don’t really care for anyone else; except for one man, Sam the Lion. He takes the innocent under his wing and is the father figure for the town, he owns the movie theater, pool hall, and the café. Everyone looks up to him and respects him, so when he’s pronounced dead everyone’s shaken by it.
Sonny and Duane are in the football team at their high school, movie starts off with everyone bugging them about their losses. They’re bored of this town, Sonny’s even bored with his girlfriend of one year; she won’t give it up so he doesn’t even bother with her anymore. Duane, on the other hand, has the homecoming queen as his girl, Jacy, the prettiest and wealthiest girl around. She’s sure bored of him though, the only reason she gives it up to him is so that another guy would want her. Jacy just sort of plays around with her sexuality because she can tell it can get her anything she wants. Sonny gets it on with an older woman and Duane runs off to the army.
There isn’t a soundtrack for this film, which makes it somewhat more real and fresh. You can get more into it because there isn’t anything going on in the background.
This town is full of affairs and depression, everyone is down for one reason or another. There’s so much sexual attraction but nothing deeper, no real love. Both the kids and the adults will do anything to fill the void. We follow these kids lives, most don’t find peace within themselves, how can they if they’re either running away from everything or not moving around at all?
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