Medicine for rental blahs
Clerks (1994)
Have you ever worked in customer service and become nauseated by the way the customers treated you? If so, Clerks is the perfect medicine. Warning: If you don't like vulgarity, this is not the movie for you!
Clerks was written and directed by Kevin Smith and is available to rent in most video stores. A sequel, Clerks II, recently followed it and is still in theatres.
Clerks is my favourite movie because it is easy to relate to for young people like myself who must work in customer service to finance their education.
Dante Hicks is the main character, along with his co-worker, Randal. Dante, a high school graduate, is self conscious about the fact that he has not yet perused post-secondary education or any kind of vocational training.
Randal is in the same situation as Dante, however he is content with his video store job and he enjoys working with Dante and tormenting the customers. Of course there are several appearances by Jay and Silent Bob (the drug dealers who hang outside of the Quick Stop Groceries) throughout Clerks, just as you would expect in a Kevin Smith movie.
Dante and Randal work at “Quick Stop Groceries” and “R.S.T. Video” respectively. The movie opens with Dante being called into work on his day off, which is a common occurrence in customer service. Upon arriving at work, Dante is immediately encountered with a series of frustrating situations, such as the locks that open the store being jammed with gum. Several annoying customers also arrive, resulting in many hilarious interactions.
Throughout the movie we see Dante struggle to determine what it is that he wants out of life. He spends much of the movie mulling over which girlfriend to choose, and whether or not he should submit to his current girlfriend Veronica's pressures and quit his job attend college.
There is a total lack of professionalism on both Dante and Randal's parts, and as they struggle with life's more important issues…the customer always comes last.
Clerks was carefully written to incorporate themes such as friendship and being true to yourself with hilarious mishaps such as a customer dying on the toilet in the bathroom at Quick Stop Groceries. The film is well-over a decade old, low budget, black and white, but still the best (and funniest) movie I have ever seen.
This is the perfect movie for Fanshawe students needing a quick study break…it is a feel-good movie that is guaranteed to make you laugh.
Have you ever worked in customer service and become nauseated by the way the customers treated you? If so, Clerks is the perfect medicine. Warning: If you don't like vulgarity, this is not the movie for you!
Clerks was written and directed by Kevin Smith and is available to rent in most video stores. A sequel, Clerks II, recently followed it and is still in theatres.
Clerks is my favourite movie because it is easy to relate to for young people like myself who must work in customer service to finance their education.
Dante Hicks is the main character, along with his co-worker, Randal. Dante, a high school graduate, is self conscious about the fact that he has not yet perused post-secondary education or any kind of vocational training.
Randal is in the same situation as Dante, however he is content with his video store job and he enjoys working with Dante and tormenting the customers. Of course there are several appearances by Jay and Silent Bob (the drug dealers who hang outside of the Quick Stop Groceries) throughout Clerks, just as you would expect in a Kevin Smith movie.
Dante and Randal work at “Quick Stop Groceries” and “R.S.T. Video” respectively. The movie opens with Dante being called into work on his day off, which is a common occurrence in customer service. Upon arriving at work, Dante is immediately encountered with a series of frustrating situations, such as the locks that open the store being jammed with gum. Several annoying customers also arrive, resulting in many hilarious interactions.
Throughout the movie we see Dante struggle to determine what it is that he wants out of life. He spends much of the movie mulling over which girlfriend to choose, and whether or not he should submit to his current girlfriend Veronica's pressures and quit his job attend college.
There is a total lack of professionalism on both Dante and Randal's parts, and as they struggle with life's more important issues…the customer always comes last.
Clerks was carefully written to incorporate themes such as friendship and being true to yourself with hilarious mishaps such as a customer dying on the toilet in the bathroom at Quick Stop Groceries. The film is well-over a decade old, low budget, black and white, but still the best (and funniest) movie I have ever seen.
This is the perfect movie for Fanshawe students needing a quick study break…it is a feel-good movie that is guaranteed to make you laugh.
