Okay, what the heck did I just watch? I am all about independent films and experimental films, but this was just odd. The movie chronicles one day in the life of Dante - a clerk at a second rate convenient shop. We meet a cast of colorful characters (actually, black and white characters - the whole movie is shot in B&W), who are both annoying and offensive - and for all but one of them, unlikable. The odd thing is though, for a good part of the movie, I was actually entertained. For the other part, I was bored to death.This is a really hard film to review. It's plotless. I guess if you like to be a fly on the wall as lower class citizens talk about sex, porn, dating, and a variety of other topics, this will be the best film you've ever seen. For me, the movie's hight point came early on when a customer brings a lung to the counter to dissuade people from buying cigarettes. It's kind of hilarious. Mostly though, the encounters with the customers are so over the top, Kevin Smith (the director) loses the point of making it seem like a real day in the life. Maybe that wasn't his goal, but then what was?
For it's 90 aimless minutes, about 30 of them were good, 5 were great, so I honestly cannot recommend this movie outright. That being said, it's the type of thing you might catch on TV while flipping around and stop to see what it's about. I would give "Clerks" a 5 out of 10.
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