"Clerks" for metallers Cinema has always been a guide to worlds that we cannot otherwise access by telling us unique people and stories. But sometimes cinema allows us to find the interesting and unusual in what we see every day and consider the height of platitude. Remember the picture of Kevin Smith “Clerks”, revealing for you the dull everyday life of two guys, typical lowlifers working in the dull local shops of a dull city. However, the film itself is not boring, as the director showed special ingenuity in telling about simple everyday things and completely trivial characters so that you love them all with your soul, even if in real life you do not tolerate such types. And even if he added out-of-the-box events like death, it seemed like a normal thing, another part of the daily lives of the main characters. Of course, Kevin Smith was not the only one who celebrated the beauty of being slackers in his film. Another little-known, but curious example of the genre is the film directed by Michael Dawes “Fubar”, which tells about the hardships of the life of two hairy rockers who like to smoke, drink, have sex, do nothing and, of course, listen to heavy music.
Dawes's film is shot in the mocumentary genre, which sounds like a terrible cliché now, but was quite a fresh move in 2002 when "Fubar" was released. The director aims to show you the lives of the main characters so that you seem to watch them through a keyhole. Or, more likely in this case, as if through a hole in the wall, which the characters could dig through during the next binge. One way or another, hairy rebels Terry and Dean invite you to ride a speeding wheelbarrow of their lives, which is so fast and dangerous that the most commonly used word in the film is the invented characters "fucken". Terry and Dean will tell you about how their friend Troy broke their heart when the latter suddenly decided to become a “civil”, got a beautiful wife, a job and fell out of the life of a classic rock and roller. You will also go through the most difficult period of his life with Dean and, no, it’s not that his favorite beer has stopped being turned into all the shops around.
Michael Dawes has a very black sense of humor and he clearly can not be called a subtle and correct person, but this more than pays off because, even using banal techniques, the director manages to be original. In many ways, "Fubar" is a trifling picture that will not be appreciated by a wide audience, but which can appeal to people who love to jump, fight and scream to loud music performed by some brutal guy. Of course, "Fubar" is no better than a rock concert, however, the film is quite able to create a rebellious atmosphere on a boring lonely evening. Michael Dawes did not become the second Kevin Smith and did not create a legendary picture, but gave life to a curious thing strictly for an amateur.