I started out with the idea of...

Charlottesville, Virginia? The hell? A film about a lot in some dinky lil town? I quickly changed my thinking cus I realized it's the same everywhere.

I don't identify with types of people, I identify with very specific people. And I've worked as a valet, we did posh parties and glam social events exactly like these guys do the lot, the people who attend them are the same affair. The most well-off are almost always the worst tippers, got bloated egos, make unreasonable demands...and we shut them down, tell them we're too busy, too undermanned, can't be done and they get this totally helpless look in their eyes with the ticket in their stretched out hand rofl. The people who get how things work pull out $20s, make it a fair exchange and we respond in kind. But for average folks you don't need to tip big, just don't be a goddamn azzhole. So yeah I identify with them a lot.

And reading some of the comments here, a lot of people don't seem to get it. They aren't angry people, they aren't completely slackers, they don't feel sorry for themselves and aren't angry people cus they "get judged" on some job they could easily quit. On a more existential level there's a sort of camaraderie of discontent with larger world itself, on how more and more people can't take 2 seconds to say "hi, how are you doing, have a good one, take it easy," and mean what they say. People increasingly join the great American cult of excesses, of this manufactured image of what you ought to be like in order to be "aight," we forget that people ought to be seen as more than units of production so if I make more money I'm not right away better than you, etc. There's more than one qualifier of what a good life is, and money is a terrible judge of character.

These people can be the best of us, the hardest working, successful people, they just need to find that something to work toward that will continue to feed that spiritual craving. I think working for that guy who owns the lot who has a carefree attitude that enables you to have one yourself is one such example.

This movie has been more meaningful to me than any summer blockbusters that people build their hollywood careers on ever would. Thanks.


OH THE HUGE MANATEE!!!