Five best friends deal with their relationships and their personal demons during a nineties weekend.
Jip calls himself a sexual paranoid, afraid he's impotent. Lulu, Jip's mate, doesn't find much to fancy in men. Nina hates her job at a fast food joint, and her man, Koop, who dreams of being a great hip-hop d.j., is prone to fits of un-provoked jealousy.
The fifth is Moff, whose family is down on his behaviour.
Starting Friday afternoon, with preparations for clubbing, we follow the five from Ecstacy- induced fun through a booze-laden come-down early Saturday morning followed by the weekend's aftermath........
I love this movie, I was twenty two when the film was released, big into house music, and clubs, and I was the target demographic for this movie, and out of the thousands of films I have seen in my life,Mathis is one of those rare films that I an bias about, and everything in this film is perfect.
Because I'm bias with this film, its not in my top 25 of all time, because that's unfair,mi love this film for its nostalgic value, every time I watch it, it takes me back to my halcyon days, before I had yet to worry about the struggles of life, but at the same time thinking about my future.
The characters my be a little two dimensional, but you can relate to them, because they have so little to worry about, they have major issues over nothing.
But subliminally, the film does hint to you the dangers of drugs and alcohol. Yes, the music is great, yes, being under the influence can make you feel more confident, but look at the problems of the five characters. Impotency, Paranoia, Unemployment, Trusting issues, and of course, laziness.
All of the characters problems contra-indications to 'having it large', so while the film appears to be glamourising the use of intoxicating substances, it's still warning the viewers against the dangers.
The film is never boring,with some wonderful cameos from the land of clubs and drugs, and it just feels like you are there, because at one time, you have been.
Essential viewing if you were a clubber in the nineties.....
Jip calls himself a sexual paranoid, afraid he's impotent. Lulu, Jip's mate, doesn't find much to fancy in men. Nina hates her job at a fast food joint, and her man, Koop, who dreams of being a great hip-hop d.j., is prone to fits of un-provoked jealousy.
The fifth is Moff, whose family is down on his behaviour.
Starting Friday afternoon, with preparations for clubbing, we follow the five from Ecstacy- induced fun through a booze-laden come-down early Saturday morning followed by the weekend's aftermath........
I love this movie, I was twenty two when the film was released, big into house music, and clubs, and I was the target demographic for this movie, and out of the thousands of films I have seen in my life,Mathis is one of those rare films that I an bias about, and everything in this film is perfect.
Because I'm bias with this film, its not in my top 25 of all time, because that's unfair,mi love this film for its nostalgic value, every time I watch it, it takes me back to my halcyon days, before I had yet to worry about the struggles of life, but at the same time thinking about my future.
The characters my be a little two dimensional, but you can relate to them, because they have so little to worry about, they have major issues over nothing.
But subliminally, the film does hint to you the dangers of drugs and alcohol. Yes, the music is great, yes, being under the influence can make you feel more confident, but look at the problems of the five characters. Impotency, Paranoia, Unemployment, Trusting issues, and of course, laziness.
All of the characters problems contra-indications to 'having it large', so while the film appears to be glamourising the use of intoxicating substances, it's still warning the viewers against the dangers.
The film is never boring,with some wonderful cameos from the land of clubs and drugs, and it just feels like you are there, because at one time, you have been.
Essential viewing if you were a clubber in the nineties.....