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DISCLAIMER: Yes, the reason why I watched this film in the first place was because my imaginary boyfriend (you may know him as John Cusack) has a small supporting role. However, that fact has little bearing on my opinion that this film kicks ass...it merely supports my opinion. So rent it already, wouldja?!?
This 1994 film is mandatory viewing for any self-respecting Gen-Xer. Written and directed by Peter McCarthy, who previously produced Sid and Nancy, Repo Man, I'm Gonna Git You Sucka and Tapeheads, Floundering tells the story set in post-riot LA of a hapless young man who just can't seem catch the train of his life.
Mostly verbatim from IMDb.com:
In this scathing and subversive social comedy, life in post riot Los Angeles is dissected under the sardonic eye of John, an unemployed thirty nothing flounderer on Venice Beach who is trying to figure out what to do with his life. John can't be bothered with apathy, but no matter how much he wants to help people, he is too immobilized to do anything useful. Haunted by chronic insomnia and impending sense of doom, all he can do is watch, and John is an avid observer. Through his voyeuristic binoculars, he struggles to make sense of all the alienation and disaffection he sees in his neighborhood. In his journal he meticulously chronicles the mundane down to steadfast march of ants across his kitchen counter. John is desperately trying to keep one meaningless day from blending into next. He compulsively watches homemade videos of LA riots looking for a clue. But everywhere around him the city's social fabric is coming apart at the seams, and now it is John's own threadbare life that's about to unravel.
