This was released in 2006, but seems to be set earlier: everybody has rotary phones, and there are no computers in sight (what appears to be a computer in one scene turns out to be some sort of slide projector). The camera continually lingers on the rotary phones, as if the filmmaker wants to emphasize that this isn't set in the present. Anybody have any idea why?
shareMy guess would be: because with the advent of caller ID or return calling then Logan would not have been able to pull off the "Leah" phone calls with Rodeo. The movie had to be set prior to those technologies being available.
shareI think they are trying to go for a Napoleon Dynamite feel, where's hard to guess if it's modern day and just a really small town that's behind the times, or if it's actually in the early 90's.
Here's why I think it's a small town and in the 21st century that is just behind the times.
1) There was a poster on the school that said "No more Water Bottles"- meaning they are doing the whole "Recycle, Reuse, Respect" thing that came along with "Going Green".
2) He had an individual applesauce. Those things weren't around way back when.
3)There was a poster in the background of the auditorium that said "Champions 99 00"
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There is also a 1990s Lincoln Town Car in one driveway. The friend had a slide projector on his desk but there was also another gadget that looked like a netcomputer or maybe a PDA on steroids. His notes about "being cool" also referenced online relationships. So the time references seem to be all over the place. The rotary phones may be a creative anachronism. It also suggests that the theme of the movie isn't just a recent problem, but has been with us for quite a while.
I'm 50, and it seemed to me at times to be set in the 70's. The time setting was ambiguous.
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