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SPEED FREAK

Today's Richard Linklater film was a short

Live From Shiva's Dance Floor (2003)

This is a 20 minute film with a NYC tour guide Speed Levitch holding forth about the Twin Towers, New York and the results of 9-11.

This guy could be a character in the fictional Slackers and he is the real deal.

I am not sure of the story behind the making of this film but that connection has to be a part of Linklater's attraction.

It is pretty good and prompted me to see more of Levitch in an earlier documentary featuring him as a tour guide.

He is supposed to be the most famous one.

This film gives a bigger picture of this guy and it is pretty good until he gets to rant on about his philosophy and you understand why Linklater knew that he was only good for 20 minutes. At 90 minutes he gets really annoying and thin.

I don't know how long you would have him on a tour.

He is a slacker. You see where he lives and how he lives and there is nothing wrong about that but there is not a lot of depth to a slacker's story. It is more about who they are. Out here. Right now.

I enjoyed the Linklater film and will give it a 3 out of Netflix5.

The biodoc was OK but I had to FF and that makes it a 2 out of Netflix5.