Clerks

Director: Kevin Smith
Writer: Kevin Smith


Cast  Brian O'Halloran, Jeff Anderson, Marilyn Ghigliotti , Lisa Spoonhauer, Jason Mewes  

Kevin Smith

Dante Hicks adalah seorang pegawai di sebuah toko retail di New Jersey. Pada hari liburnya disuatu sabtu pagi, ia dipanggil masuk kerja. Sesampai di sana, ia harus menghadapi banyak masalah. Jendela luar tidak bisa terbuka. Mantan pacarnya yang akan menikah. Pengakuan pacarnya tentang berapa lelaki yang telah di**-nya :D. Dan temannya, Randal, penjaga toko penyewaan video yang memiliki dedikasi yang kurang untuk pekerjaannya, dan juga selalu mengganggu pelanggan Dante.

Tidak ada isu yang menarik dalam film ini tetapi justru disitulah nilai poin lebihnya. Cerita mengenai kehidupan suburban New Jersey yang datar dan ending yang tidak menggurui pula.

Ada satu yang menarik, karakter Jay & Silent Bob, karakter ini sangat kuat, dan muncul di hampir semua film Kevin Smith, dari Chasing Amy, Dogma, Clerks, Clerks 2 dan Jay & Silent Bob strikes back. Sayangnya Jason Mewes (mungkin) tidak akan lepas dari karakter Jay seumur hidupnya :)

DVD ini cukup sulit didapat. Tidak ada distribusi home video di indonesia yang merilisnya sehingga pun mendapatkan dengan mengunjungi dan mengobrak abrik :) beberapa toko musik traditional di negara tetangga. 

Dengan format Black & White (yup betul, Hitam Putih!!) film ini bisa meraup US$ 3juta dengan bujet hanya sekitar 20rban dolar!!

Beberapa quote dari film ini:

Randal Graves: Fine, just let me borrow your car. 

Dante Hicks: Why should I loan you my car? 

Randal Graves: I wanna rent a movie. 

Dante Hicks: You wanna rent a movie? 

Randal Graves: I wanna rent a movie! 

[Dante sighs] 

Randal Graves: What's that for? 

Dante Hicks: You work in a video store! 

Randal Graves: I work in a shitty video store! I wanna go to a good video store so I can get a good movie! 

Randal Graves: Oh what, what's with you, man? You haven't said anything for like 20 minutes. What the hell's you're problem? 

Dante Hicks: This life. 

Randal Graves: This life? 

Dante Hicks: Why do I have this life? 

Randal Graves: Have some chips, you'll feel better. 

Dante Hicks: I'm stuck in this pit, working for less than slave wages. Working on my day off, the goddamn steel shutters are closed, I deal with every backward ass fuck on the planet. I smell like shoe polish. My ex-girlfriend is catatonic after fucking a dead guy. And my present girlfriend has sucked 36 dicks. 

Randal Graves: 37. 

Jay: I dunno dude, that Caitlin chick's nice, but I've seen that Veronica girl doing shit for you all the time. I saw her rubbing your back, fucking comes and brings you food. Didn't I see her change your tire once? 

Dante Hicks: Hey-hey, you know, I jacked up the car, all she did was unloosen the nuts and put the tire on. 

Jay: I dunno, she does a lot for you. 

Dante Hicks: She's my girlfriend. 

Jay: I had some girlfriends too, but all they wanted from me is weed and shit. Shit my grandmother used to say 'What's better, fuckin', a good plate with nothin' on it... ' no wait I fucked up. 'What's a good plate with nothing on it?' 

Dante Hicks: Meaning? 

Jay: I dunno, she was senile and shit, she used to fuckin' piss herself all the time, and shit herself. Come on, Silent Bob, lets get the fuck out of this fucking jip joint, with this fucking faggot Dante, you cock smoker! 

Randal Graves: Which did you like better? "Jedi" or "The Empire Strikes Back"? 

Dante Hicks: "Empire". 

Randal Graves: Blasphemy. 

Dante Hicks: "Empire" had the better ending. I mean, Luke gets his hand cut off, finds out Vader's his father, Han gets frozen and taken away by Boba Fett. It ends on such a down note. I mean, that's what life is, a series of down endings. All "Jedi" had was a bunch of Muppets.