Dazed And Confused: Movie Review: 'Dazed And Confused'

‘Dazed and Confused’ made it’s debut on September 24, 1993 and did not obtain instant success in the box office but has been considered a classic because of how well the movie captured the free will and problems of high school aged kids. The movie’s setting is a high school in Texas during 1976, and follows a diverse group of teens as they go through their last day of school before summer break. The movie embodies what it feels like to be that age by depicting the conflicts that kids their age face and allowing you to relate to them. It even makes you feel nostalgic with how well they depict the teenagers as they are going through their last day of school and the overwhelming happiness you got when the final bell of the year rang. The simplicity of the plot is what makes the movie so relatable because there are not many unreal elements. Even though the movie was released in 1993 the

One of the things in the movie that contrasts with the present culture is the amount of hazing that was done by the seniors to the rising freshman. Putting an end to hazing is a huge topic on college campuses so seeing something like this is atypical in our present culture. Hazing among teens didn’t happen during the time that I went to high school and I think it does a good job of showing how society has changed. My experience of high school was much more strict than the one shown in the movie, and it seems like teens in this time period were given much more independence at school than people in my generation were. Even scenes of kids smoking cigarettes at the school seem bizarre to someone who went to high school in the 21st century because of the rules that are in place to keep schools tobacco free. It shows how people in that time period weren’t aware of the harmful affects of