By mere coincidence the other day this film was referred to me by a friend, with particular recommendation to the monologue which appears as linked below. If there ever was a rant that so succinctly demonstrates numbness and indifference to postmodern proliferation it is what is featured below. It is, what I would imagine, to be an accurate representation of what a post-secondary education Euro-trip would be like at the mercy of narcotics....or if you are Quentin Tarantino or Chuck Palahniuk.
The segway for the appearance of this link on this blog and therefore its relevance to this course may be found in the novel that the film is based on. Bret Easton Ellis' Rules of Attraction (1987) is a novel very much in the same vein as Tartt's Secret History. Liberal Arts students, promiscuous sex, tragedy, blah, blah. In fact, both Ellis and Tartt were contemporaries and classmates at college. The setting of the novel reflects the author's own college (i will refrain from using the word 'lifestyle', lest the ghost of Barthe from weeks past chase me with a massive baguette or poorly prepared macaroons). Tartt's novel comes after but there is overlap in storylines. An intriguing and nerdy thing to read up on I'm sure.
In the meantime, Youtube has disabled embedding on most of the clips of this monologue but be prepare to be amazed after the jump:
"Rules of Attraction Euro Trip Monologue "
- mia
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