10 Excellent Films That Don't Actually Have A Plot
2. Slacker (1991)
Director: Richard Linklater The first feature film of Richard Linklater (who would later go on to direct Boyhood), Slacker is an uncommonly structured film, following a whole host a characters as they go about their regular days. The characters include two conspiracy theorists, a women trying to sell a Madonna pap smear, an anarchist who befriends a man trying to rob him, and a talkative taxi passenger (played by Linklater himself). Whats so great about Slacker is its lack of plot, the way it shifts focus every now and then to someone new, as if the filmmaker had suddenly gotten bored of the previous character and decided to pick someone else out at random and tell their story instead. No one in the film is ever given too much priority, all of the characters are seen in glimpses that refuse to linger for even a second longer than they should. At times, the film is like watching episodes from the worlds least plot orientated television series. Each moment is so estranged from the last that you start to wonder whether or not theyre even set in the same universe, or whether or not it matters.
