The Guy's Tenements In The Film, The Green Room
I remember a joke from my youth. A guy asks another punk, “What is punk?” In response the punk kicked a trash can and said, “that is punk.” The Guy then kicks the trash can again and said, “So this is punk?”
“No, you are a poser,” said the punk.
In this sense, The Green Room is a film about posing. The Ain’t Rights (the band) are a rough and tumble band that remind of punk squatters living in New York Tenements in the late 80’s. The squatter punks were creative collaborative who lived off the grid. Foraged and stole for food. The squatter punks saw surviving outside mainstream as a closer to an authentic life. Bastard children of Urban and Suburbanite families the turned the abandoned building into a commune.
The Ain’t Rights, like the squatter punks live off the land. In an early scene, the camera caputures the band from an areal view. The fan swerved off the road into a corn field. When the camera enters the fan we find that the driver had fallen a sleep while driving. Consuling their cellphones the band locates a near by roller rink. As they nearing the building we find out that the bands goal is not …show more content…
As the band arrives, and transits through the park to the green room you can see the lazy disgust on the faces of the band. While never fully fleshed out, the bands form of punk or ideology is hinted at early in the film when the band is asked why they do not have a social media presence. Pat played by Anton Yelchin provides a response which sounds very punk on the surface. The Ain’t Right are seeking to be an experience outside of commodification. The creations of most bands in the world are infinitely repeatable, they transend the time and space of the muscitions and audience lived reality. The Ain’t Rights want to be firmly planted in the concert and the on stage performance. Fan’s need to share space at the concern, be together, toss eblows in the moshpit to truly experience the
“No, you are a poser,” said the punk.
In this sense, The Green Room is a film about posing. The Ain’t Rights (the band) are a rough and tumble band that remind of punk squatters living in New York Tenements in the late 80’s. The squatter punks were creative collaborative who lived off the grid. Foraged and stole for food. The squatter punks saw surviving outside mainstream as a closer to an authentic life. Bastard children of Urban and Suburbanite families the turned the abandoned building into a commune.
The Ain’t Rights, like the squatter punks live off the land. In an early scene, the camera caputures the band from an areal view. The fan swerved off the road into a corn field. When the camera enters the fan we find that the driver had fallen a sleep while driving. Consuling their cellphones the band locates a near by roller rink. As they nearing the building we find out that the bands goal is not …show more content…
As the band arrives, and transits through the park to the green room you can see the lazy disgust on the faces of the band. While never fully fleshed out, the bands form of punk or ideology is hinted at early in the film when the band is asked why they do not have a social media presence. Pat played by Anton Yelchin provides a response which sounds very punk on the surface. The Ain’t Right are seeking to be an experience outside of commodification. The creations of most bands in the world are infinitely repeatable, they transend the time and space of the muscitions and audience lived reality. The Ain’t Rights want to be firmly planted in the concert and the on stage performance. Fan’s need to share space at the concern, be together, toss eblows in the moshpit to truly experience the