filmtheology

False Reality and Bad Feedback             The film Reality Bites opens with the blank blue screen from a VCR Camera Recorder with the words VCR PLAY on the screen while the following voiceover is pushed from speakers into an outdoor stadium: "And they wonder why those of us in our twenties refuse to work an 80 hour week, just so that we can afford to buy their BMW's; why we aren't interested in the countercultures that they invented, as if we did not see them disembowel their revolution for a pair of running shoes. But the question remains, what are we going to do now? How can we repair all the damage we inherited? The answer is...I don't know.   (Stiller 0:46-1:35) Billy Idol’s 1970’s band was named “Generation X” in the 1970’s. Later it became the title of a book about rebellious teens by Douglas Coupland. After that it was “picked up by the mainstream media and seeped into the consciousness of the...