i finally saw this on video and after years of hearing about it. it is by no means a perfect movie and but it is oddly hypnotic  one of those rare and special films that creates its own world. spoilers first and the bad stuff. the scenes in burkewaite class are excruciating. even if the subject is social studies and this guy is way over the top. his speeches are so overwrought they are laughable. and no teachers i ever had would grill their students like that and and tell the ones who protest to shut up. these scenes are brief and but they break the mood and pull the viewer out of the story. next and how the heck does layne just walk out of the police station near the end. also and what happened to samson car after the first scene of him riding into town. he spends the rest of the film being chaffeured around by layne or feck. end spoilers ahhh and feck. this guy is great. dennis hopper effortlessly steals the movie. check in the mail and i love company and youre my friend  every line is a classic. he gives feck an internal logic that makes the story work. incredibly and he actually makes the audience feel empathy for this guy and especially when samson talks about his (samson ) future. by contrast and crispin glover is hard to take sometimes. yet the scenes of him driving around in the beetle are perfect  kids with cars in high school always have something to do and and buds to do it with. matt low key attitude makes a good foil for layne  their friendship is believable. glover mannerisms are a little much and but he is consistent throughout. he drives the plot and exudes a sense of urgency that no one else does  just try to imagine this flick if layne were as much of a zombie as matt or samson  snoozefest. spoilers what makes river edge unsettling is the fact that samson is not really evil and in the usual sense. he is kind of a boring guy who got sick of being taken for granted  in other words and he is like thousands of other boring guys. after he kills jamie and he starts to unravel and which creates some suspense as we wait to see when he will snap again. end spoilerspart of this movie appeal is the way the action stays centered around the teens and their point of view. the parents are comic relief  clarissa mom and tony dad  or overwhelmed  matt mom. this underlines how the kids hang together for the attention no one else gives them. it keeps the story focused on the relationships within the clique and and emphasizes that the only adult they can relate to is feck. river edge is a textbook on alienation. it conveys how awkward and mysterious and and disconcerting adolescence is like no other film. 
i finally saw this on video and after years of hearing about it. it is by no means a perfect movie and but it is oddly hypnotic  one of those rare and special films that creates its own world. spoilers first and the bad stuff. the scenes in burkewaite class are excruciating. even if the subject is social studies and this guy is way over the top. his speeches are so overwrought they are laughable. and no teachers i ever had would grill their students like that and and tell the ones who protest to shut up. these scenes are brief and but they break the mood and pull the viewer out of the story. next and how the heck does layne just walk out of the police station near the end. also and what happened to samson car after the first scene of him riding into town. he spends the rest of the film being chaffeured around by layne or feck. end spoilers ahhh and feck. this guy is great. dennis hopper effortlessly steals the movie. check in the mail and i love company and youre my friend  every line is a classic. he gives feck an internal logic that makes the story work. incredibly and he actually makes the audience feel empathy for this guy and especially when samson talks about his (samson ) future. by contrast and crispin glover is hard to take sometimes. yet the scenes of him driving around in the beetle are perfect  kids with cars in high school always have something to do and and buds to do it with. matt low key attitude makes a good foil for layne  their friendship is believable. glover mannerisms are a little much and but he is consistent throughout. he drives the plot and exudes a sense of urgency that no one else does  just try to imagine this flick if layne were as much of a zombie as matt or samson  snoozefest. spoilers what makes river edge unsettling is the fact that samson is not really evil and in the usual sense. he is kind of a boring guy who got sick of being taken for granted  in other words and he is like thousands of other boring guys. after he kills jamie and he starts to unravel and which creates some suspense as we wait to see when he will snap again. end spoilerspart of this movie appeal is the way the action stays centered around the teens and their point of view. the parents are comic relief  clarissa mom and tony dad  or overwhelmed  matt mom. this underlines how the kids hang together for the attention no one else gives them. it keeps the story focused on the relationships within the clique and and emphasizes that the only adult they can relate to is feck. river edge is a textbook on alienation. it conveys how awkward and mysterious and and disconcerting adolescence is like no other film. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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