Clerks (1994)
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Tropes
- The film's use of vulgar, obscene, and profane dialogue → The Carnivalesque
- The Quick Stop Groceries store as a workplace → The Commodity Fetish
- The debate over independent contractors on the Death Star → The Hyperreal Mirage
- The friendship and conversational dynamic between Dante and Randal → Homosocial Desire
- The film's grainy, black-and-white, 16mm cinematography
- The characters' pervasive sense of boredom, cynicism, and lack of ambition
- The film's production and distribution history as a Sundance success story
Films most connected to Clerks
- The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005) — via The Commodity Fetish, Homosocial Desire, The Carnivalesque
- Total Recall (1990) — via The Commodity Fetish, The Hyperreal Mirage, The Carnivalesque
- What We Do in the Shadows (2014) — via The Hyperreal Mirage, Homosocial Desire
- Barton Fink (1991) — via The Commodity Fetish, Homosocial Desire
- Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004) — via The Hyperreal Mirage, The Carnivalesque
- Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019) — via The Hyperreal Mirage, The Carnivalesque
- Home Alone (1990) — via The Commodity Fetish, The Carnivalesque
- Edward Scissorhands (1990) — via The Commodity Fetish, The Hyperreal Mirage