The 90's. A time when we could all laugh at ourselves.

Ah, the 90's. The 90's seemed to be the free-love era of modern times. When young men and women would get drunk, take drugs, and have lots and lots of sex. Or at least perhaps that was my perception of the 90's since that was when I was in High School, and also a senior.

There's a lot I can relate to in this film. The way it was made, most of the cast in this film represented at least one of my friends or people I knew. It had all the types of kids I seen or had conversations with in school. From the popular kid, to the prim and proper good girl that no-one really has anything in common with, nor does she have any time to talk to us -- this film had something for every person growing up in the 90's as I did.

It probably wasn't as funny to the adults of the day, because this was the type of behaviour they were trying to battle with and come to terms with -- how their kids were such care free party goers. It was probably a rebellion of sorts with the strictness in which we were all brought up with. The 80's was a tough decade on kids.

The film has quite an immature sense of humour. If you like beer farts that ignite then this is the film for you. Not that I'm saying there is anything wrong with this type of humour because Senior Trip is one of my favourite films of all time, it is still to quite a niche audience, and particularly if you started high school in the 90's.

If this film was made now then it would never see the light of day. Audiences would call it sexist, racist, makes fun of minorities and the disabled -- we're mostly living in a time where humour is passed as seriousness and no-one is allowed to pass a joke unless its went through the purity test.

That being said for me, and perhaps my peers alike this film is timeless. It represents an era where we could all laugh hard at our flaws

After this film I managed to get the nickname of virus for a few years. Here's why:

Everyone knew I was a geek and shy. I used to push back against what my friends said but ultimately, looking back, they were right. Ha.

I wasn't the only one to escape scrutiny. @beardoin became the Star Trek Psycho mostly because of his love of Star Trek and his social ineptness. I guess it took him years of working on himself to get good with people, but he was shy like me, I just had the lucky escape on that one to not get that nickname.

I sort of miss this era of movie-making. A time when it was mostly a free for all. Art was unrestricted, and people weren't running around stepping on eggshells trying to appear as perfect. We all knew that we were flawed and we embraced that inequity with the universe. Now we seem to be trying to be perfect in an imperfect world. It's quite insane.

We embraced characters like red; a hipster alcoholic drugmaster from the 70's, a time when free love really was a thing (as was STDs), but that made him all the more believable -- we all knew one of these guys. Or at least my friends and I did:

I have hope though. There's already pushback. Elon on his new X app is trying to get reporters to share on his platform for a slice of the pie and they won't be at the whims of mega-corps telling them what to say and what not to say. Whilst this isn't the best of scenario's, one could argue that Elon is "just-another-megacorp" but it feels like a step in the right direction at least.

So I have hope for the future of art and film making.

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