Like an ancient poem the ideas, meaning and even aspects of the plot are left up to interpretation. This is a movie for anyone who has ever been so bored with his or current situation that he or she can just lay back and dream up a world of love, death,sex, drugs and aliens abductions and the end of the all life as we know it. Each character is kind one sided as we see the world through the eyes of Dark, the aptly named lead; these are not representations of all teens but only the annoying stereotypes as they relate to Dark's life. so taking all that in to account this is a great movie to share with friends (and confuse the heck out of them) or to watch when you're feeling a little bored yourself. With sets painted wild colors and out of place visuals it's clear that for Dark-life is but a dream.
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PyreworksShow27 July 2007As was said above, this is basically 90210 on Acid. From the very beginning one can tell that this film is going to be a major head trip, and would likely be best watched while high on some manner of substance. Still...I'm no stoner, but was able to watch and enjoy it without difficulty. The movie chronicles a typical day of the average 90s teenager, but with perspectives from all orientations and view points: lesbians, gays, bisexuals, stoners, drunks, the whole nine yards. The acting was excellent, and the plot, though difficult to see at points, was quite good. The thing that threw me was the addition of the alien that apparently only Dark can see. It seemed to simultaneously interrupt and fit the story line. Conclusion: this is easily one of my favorite indie films, and I hope I can find time to see it again.
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preppy-326 April 2002Dark (James Duval) and his friends live in an LA with drugs, sex, suicide, murder and such running wild. Dark just wants to find somebody to love and who loves him back--male or female. Oh yeah--there are aliens wandering around too (!!!???) Other than that there's no real plot--just a bunch of teens on drugs and their various adventures. Full of hilarious one liners or lines that make you just howl with laughter. Incredible set design, lighting and directing (check out the wallpapers on various characters' bedrooms). Duval is excellent (and has plenty of casual nude scenes).
Always interesting and very well-acted by a VERY interesting cast. Not as good as "Living End" or "Totally F**ked Up" but well worth seeing. The sequence that ends the film is a laugh riot--unfortunately it's not supposed to be.
SPOILERS IN NEXT PARAGRAPH!!!! WARNING !!!!!!!!
One guy is telling another in bed that he loves him and just got back from being kidnapped by aliens (no kidding!) Then he came out with "All I thought as I was being put into the space pod, is how much I loved you". I saw it in a theatre and the audience started giggling--me too (for the record, I'm gay). It just was SO stupid...the acting is very good but the lines are horrible. Then he transforms into a giant bug and says "I'm out o' here" and leaves. By the time that came on, me (and the rest of the audience) were in hysterics. What the hell was Araki trying to do with that?
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one4now417 October 2003This, along with "The Doom Generation", is one of my many favorite films. I remember showing this to quite a few people at different times, and two things seem to upset people the most: the bisexuality/homoeroticism and the loads of sex scenes that, depending on the scene, serve various purposes. One person I watched it with (she thought she was an intellectual and felt it was beneath her to sit through it) said there was no way this film could be saying anything important and called it a "porno movie". Naturally, since this film shows not one exposed genital organ or even a bare female breast, her argument was ridiculous. As for the homosexual things that go on in the film, I think that that makes people upset because it depicts these characters as human beings with emotions (which homosexuals and bisexuals are) and/or because it turns them on. I love this movie for many reasons. It's very schizophrenic, always going back and forth from harsh realities to gutbusting humor, and sometimes managing to blend them together in a strange and equal mix. It seems that Gregg Araki was trying to defy expectations of him here, and that he was trying not to make a film easily judged as "exploitation". This movie has more sex scenes than "The Doom Generation", but they are not explicit at all. The reasons these scenes are erotic and entertaining is because Araki works with the characters and dialogue to make the sex interesting without showing any nudity other than the occasional male butt. Also, where there would be so many people to call "The Doom Generation" garbage for its constant use of obvious profanities, the dialogue in "Nowhere", if you'll notice, was done without hardly any cusswords, unless you count the myriad of VERY creative slang terms poured all throughout. And as for the gore, there's one big scene and one brief, minor scene. What I find amazing is that even with these differences, "Nowhere" is no less fascinating and brutally effective than "The Doom Generation". I love them both, and, no matter how many disagree, I believe Araki is a very important, skillful, and versatile cinematic artist. I've decided to include no spoilers, but I do want to add one more thing: If you don't see any meaning to this, that still doesn't mean that it is completely meaningless and without a point.
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Libretio28 January 2005NOWHERE
Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
Sound format: Ultra-Stereo
During the course of a single day in LA, a group of teens have sex, get high, find love, experience disappointment, live, die, and get zapped by reptilian aliens from another dimension. Or something...
Opening with a memorable shot of bisexual teen James Duval languishing naked beneath a shower, and ending on an image of TOTAL teenage alienation, NOWHERE concludes Gregg Araki's 'Teen Apocalypse' trilogy - see also TOTALLY F***ED UP (1993) and THE DOOM GENERATION (1995) - a venomous dissection of teenage angst and attitudes. As before, NOWHERE combines parody and surrealism in a freewheeling manner, exposing its beautiful-but-vacant teens as slaves to hormones and commercialism, rendering them impotent in the face of harsh reality. Symbolism runs rampant, and Araki washes the screen in a riot of candy colors, submerging the viewer in the same waking dreamworld inhabited by the film's somnambulistic inhabitants. The late John Ritter plays a smarmy TV evangelist whose broadcasts have an alarming effect on some of the teens, while ex-"Baywatch" star Jaason Simmons plays a former TV idol whose 'nice guy' exterior masks a snake from the pit of hell...
Typical of Araki's output to date, the movie aligns its gorgeous young cast alongside a range of celebrity cameos, including Beverly D'Angelo (as Duval's bitchy mother), Charlotte Rae (a fortune teller), Traci Lords, Shannon Doherty and Rose McGowan (as three Valley-girls who get zapped by the aforementioned alien!), and Lauren Tewes as a terminally cheery TV news reporter. Ryan Phillippe and Heather Graham are a couple of wild-eyed teens who live for sex and speed, while Guillermo Díaz and former pop singer Jeremy Jordan play star-crossed lovers torn apart by drugs and suicide, and Botticellian beauty Nathan Bexton (SANTA MONICA BOULEVARD) becomes an object of desire for Duval and several other cuties. Look fast for beefcake studs John Enos III, 'Playgirl' centerfold Brian Buzzini, and the Brewer twins (shirtless, natch). For all its eye-candy, however, NOWHERE has been criticized in some quarters for signalling a curtailment of the gay content in Araki's movies (there's plenty of hetero sexual activity, but the gay characters barely even touch each other), and there's a bizarre moment when Duval finds true love in the arms of someone who turns out to be... well, something REALLY unpleasant (I'll say no more). Adventurous viewers will get their money's worth, but it feels like a compromised effort, powered by the expectations of a multiplex audience.
The movie is pointless and juvenile and silly and sexy, but it's clearly the work of someone both fascinated and repelled by the subject matter (Devon Odessa and Stacy Keenan appear briefly as a couple of airheads named 'What' and 'Ever'!). Araki followed it with SPLENDOR (1999), a frothy Hollywood-style comedy in which Kathleen Robertson enjoys a three-way relationship with the astonishingly beautiful Johnathan Schaech and Matt Keeslar, though gay viewers drawn to Araki's movies by the uncompromising attitudes of his earlier achievements (cf. THE LIVING END) are hoping for a return to Absolute Queer Anarchy with his upcoming adaptation of Scott Heim's ultra-serious novel MYSTERIOUS SKIN (2004). -
Coventry25 February 2004What Gregg Araki presents to us here is nothing but good old-fashioned trash! Giving us a taste of the glorious Russ Meyer reign during the sixties and seventies, which is a terribly ignored field of cult-cinema. Simply put, this film is extremely COOL to look at! The title is very appropriate because this film indeed leads to nowhere and it's Gregg Araki's view on the subject of teen-alienation. Without even trying, he beats that other overrated director Larry Clark who takes himself way too serious anyway. Nowhere constantly introduces kinky and eccentric characters, each and every one of them suffering from modern diseases and problems like drugs, eating disorders, nymphomania, hallucinations, aggression and even suicide! Araki even touches the more daily problems like popularity and faithfulness. The pivot in this hysterical bunch is Dark, an utterly confused, bisexual young man who's convinced that he's going to die soon. Dark is played by James Duval, an over-talented young actor and building up a solid cult-reputation through starring in other goodies like Donnie Darko' and May'. Duval also was the key figure in the previous entries of Araki's apocalyptic trilogy, carrying the very imaginative titles `Totally F***ed Up' and `The Doom Generation'. Both films that come with my highest possible recommendation as well, but I'm strongly convinced that Nowhere is Araki's best and most personal achievement. It just is a magnificent series of hilariously messed up conversations and actions, leading towards a truly insane anti-climax. I can easily imagine that mainstream film-audiences will absolutely loath this film, but I'm a giant fan and Araki can be sure of the fact that his film already built up a cult-following by now.
It's truly remarkable how Gregg Araki managed to work with such an overly well-known and talented cast. Practically every little role in Nowhere is credited with a famous name of the young and upcoming Hollywood generation. In the tiniest, most meaningless figures, you'll recognize faces like Heather Graham, Shannen Doherthy, Stacy Keanen, Scott Caan, Ryan Phillipe, Jordan Ladd, Mena Suvari and many, many more The absolute highlights however, are the cameos by multiple veterans like Beverly D'Angelo as Dark's slutty mother and especially John Ritter as a religion guru on TV. You hear it, there's so much to discover in this film I can't praise it enough! -
Life is not easy for an angst-ridden bi-curious teenager and his fellow high school students in this uncanny early career film from 'Mysterious Skin' director Gregg Araki. The film opens with a striking scene in which the teen pleasures himself in the shower while conflicting thoughts of beautiful women and a boy who he fancies flicker on screen, signifying from early on his sexual confusion. 'Nowhere' is not, however, just a tale of a young man realising his latent homosexuality. Rather, it is about how he perceives his whole universe collapsing as a result of this realisation. As the film progresses, increasingly weird things start happening. There are UFO sightings, encounters with alien beings and one character gets abducted... but does this really happen or is the apocalypse merely in his mind? While often baffling, the sci-fi angle provides an unexpected edge, and frustrating as the weirdness may well be, there is never a boring with the idea of aliens just around the corner. What the film does not do so well is juggle all of its many subplots. James Duval is engaging as the protagonist, but no other character is fleshed out in much depth, and only one subplot (a date rape victim coming to worship a televangelist) really stands out. The film is riveting though whenever Duval is on screen. He brings a simultaneous confidence and vulnerability to his character, acting all cool but deeply worried just beneath. What exactly the aliens are meant to signify is anybody's guess, but this is a film that does not need to be understood in its entirety for its central human story to resonate.
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deusmortus27 October 2003this movie was terrible but in a way that allowed me to see it through to the end. think ed wood. i swear the whole flick was an out of control eye candy piece with little or no substance. the characters were a mess and i really couldn't care less what happened to them, their minds were already deteriorated to the point of no return. pseudo-symbolism at its worst.
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AspiringDirector31 July 2007I caught this film on IFC on some late night where I couldn't sleep. This film is a trip and a half. The colors are bold and the film is really about teenagers figuring out their place in life. The dialog is absolutely hilarious. I, myself, am a teenager and the stereotypical script really seemed to fit. Every character in this film, in my opinion, is just part of a high school stereotype that you get placed into during that age. Whether it be the awkward girl who wants to fit in, sex rampaging freaks or just some young 16 year olds trying to find a hoppin party. I wish I could find this movie on DVD. Really generation defining in my opinion. Try to not listen to the people who bash this movie saying it's trash and all of that. Well ... it is trash but the movie "knows" it's trashy and low-brow; so I guess it can pull it off. I'm actually surprised I haven't heard of it until now. Find it and watch it.
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RocketB5228 September 2010Think of it as "Earth Girls are Easy" meets "Eraserhead."
Don't believe the people who have written that this film is about "typical adolescent experiences." It represents a certain SEGMENT of kids, but they are by no means typical of ALL kids.
And frankly, it's dated already.
Anyhow, there's something hypnotic about watching shallow, self-absorbed, assholic kind of people taking drugs, having sex and having interesting hallucinations, but don't expect a point or a plot. Except maybe that the point is there IS no point, which is boring, because it's been done so many times.
And I would love to know why the hell Dark is the only one who sees the Alien. Or why he sees the Alien at all.
Or maybe that's too much to ask for in this gleefully debauched little flick. Maybe worth watching just for the whole stupidity of it all, but for God's sake, don't rent. Not worth the $4.50 -
JoshuaBlue29 May 2001reading the reviews already posted for this movie... I am saddened that so many people missed the point. it is about nothing and it is nowhere... as is just about everything that is popular now-a-days. this movie is about the absolute emptiness of pop culture and the absolute emptiness of most people's minds. I think most of you that didn't like this movie.. are either those being made fun of... or are so far out of anything doing with popular culture for you to get the joke.
secondly - this is a drug movie. i'm betting the average rating by people who've done acid is about 8.0 and the average for the others is about 3.0 --- check out the symbolism --- check out the colors --- check out the sound.
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wes-connors21 February 2010Hunky eighteen-year-old James Duval (as Dark Smith) has homoerotic fantasies about pretty blond boy Nathan Bexton (as Montgomery), but wants to be true to bisexual girlfriend Rachel True (as Mel). She is also seeing purple-haired Kathleen Robertson (as Lucifer), and tells Mr. Duval they should have sex with as many people as possible, before getting so old and ugly nobody will want them.
Gregg Araki's "Nowhere" is mainly Duval's story, but other friends and acquaintances have sexual subplots.
Witty airhead pal Christina Applegate (as Dingbat) likes stoner Scott Caan (as Ducky), who appears and disappears. His sweet sister Sarah Lassez (as Egg aka Polly) meets teen idol Jaason Simmons (of "Baywatch"), who shocks her with rough sex. Rocker Guillermo Diaz (as Cowboy) has trouble with masochistic boyfriend Jeremy Jordan (as Bart), who is unable to moderate his drug use. Get in line.
As Mr. Jordan's parents, Christopher Knight and Eve Plumb get the best of several "cameo" appearances.
Shady dealer Alan Boyce (as Handjob) cuts bad dope for biker Thyme Lewis (as Elvis), who is driving it home with cute Jordan Ladd (as Alyssa). Her brother Ryan Phillippe (as Shad) licks off Heather Graham (as Lilith), and visa versa. Relatively young Joshua Gibran Mayweather (as Zero) and girlish Mena Suvari (as Zoe) want in on the action, which cumulates as most of the gang gather for a big party.
An alien abduction threatens protagonist Duval's chances for happiness. To the point, the ending bites.
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sam-22312 October 1999In a word... terrible terrible terrible! This thing looks like it's shot on videotape and edited like the filmmaker was trying to cover up his mistakes or something. I don't know what else to say. It sucks. I almost feel like you need to see this just to prove my point. Also, it's like the director just tried to put Every famous young person in the movie he could find. Except even the actors don't seem to believe what they're saying (and they're supposed to be the age to relate to this.).
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Infofreak25 June 2001Man, I love trash! Serve me up Russ Meyer, Roger Corman, Ed Wood, Psych-Out, Rock'n'Roll High School or Angel, Angel, Down We Go and I'm a happy camper. But it's not so easy to make successful SELF CONSCIOUS trash. Troma try it and rarely succeed. The Chiodo brothers pulled it off with Killer Klowns from Outer Space, but Gregg Araki not only succeeds with Nowhere but takes it to the next level. Nowhere is the 90s Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls and then some. I can't even begin to tell you how cool this movie is! Look at the sensational cast which includes the debut of Mena Suvari, a couple of Bradys and best of all the wonderful find of Sarah Lassez. Add a spot on soundtrack of Sonic Youth, Elastica, JAMC, Portishead and Stacey Q(!) Plus Gibby from the Butthole Surfers, John Ritter playing a televangelist, an alien with a zap gun and Throbbing Gristle jokes! What more can you wish for?
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Red-Barracuda4 January 2022I remember seeing this one at the cinema back in the day and being baffled by it and not necessarily in a good way. On returning to it again after all these years, it probably works a bit better now as a snapshot of its time. Don't get me wrong, there are still moments of patience-testing-drivel but it all seems much more forgivable now in hindsight. Its story, such as it is, follows a bunch of L. A. college students in their day-to-day lives and melodramas. But that description only really scratches the surface as there are aliens and much weirdness throughout. For what its worth, director Gregg Araki describer it as 'Beverly Hills 90210 on acid'. One thing is for certain, the soundtrack was kind of impressive though, with choice cuts from such unexpected shoegaze acts as Slowdive, Catherine Wheel, Curve and Lush. I was just about to say that this was a Marmite movie but I just remembered I rated it 6/10, so I guess that just massively undermines that statement.
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SamLowry-217 March 1999Gregg Araki can be faulted for not inviting the "main stream" audience into his "vision" of the world. But this probably isn't really a goal of his, anyway. As I watched "Nowhere" in the theater (twice in one week) I was filled with awe that something I had always felt had been so colorfully put on celluloid: finding love is all that matters, but the world isn't designed to make that finding easy. So when "Dark" finds an amazingly true moment amongst the usual Araki violence, hilarity, sex and clutter (a moment to simply relax and hold the person in the bed next to him) it rings true to the heart of experience. The movie ends in the next moment with an equally true touch. So, the sooner we find love, the sooner it can find its own reason to leave us. Araki's best film. If you don't get it, then he probably doesn't want you to.
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The trailer to this movie looked like it offered something new, but it was awful. WARNING!!!!!!!!!!! SPOILERS AHEAD!!!!!!!!! You feel a bit different about Heather Grahm after seeing this movie, since 9/10 of her screen time she is having sex with Ryan Phillipe. Gregg Araki seems to do whatever it takes to prove how original his movie is, but it just ends up being stupid. One guy explodes, and when the blood settles, a giant beetle is in his place.(The beetle even talks)A guys nipple rings are torn off. James Duval is the main character, Dark ("As in absence of light" he points out) and he is a terrible actor. Rachael True is his girlfriend, and she talks like shes trying to create a new accent or something, and that's irratating. The good parts of this movie( there are very few) are Mena Suvari(her debut movie, she wasn't that great but I'm a fan) Chistina Applegate with braces, a spanking scene, and John Ritter as a "preist" who sends kids messages of suicide. This movie was awful.
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Nowhere is the type of film that you either get and love, or don't get and hate. Aside from it's brilliantly artistic cinematography and art direction, it's a pretty accurate representation of life as a modern-day adolescent. As strange as this comment may seem, it does hold true. The events presented are, in fact, realities of the lives of today's young people: sex, drug use, suicide, and mental illness are all dealt with in some way or another. For some, it is truly like being on acid. For those of us that have blocked out the traumatic parts of growing up, then it is understandable why you don't understand this movie. The way each issue is presented is the genius of the art: Each character and their emotional impact is presented artistically as well as dramatically. Although the entire movie is not relevant to everyone, I would strongly suggest watching it for at least the artistic merit. Even if you don't understand it or it doesn't apply to you, understand that it is relevant to some.
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richeryv4 February 2002(some spoilers) I saw this annoying and pointless film yesterday after few friends told me it was great. I don't share their view point at all, maybe I didn't understand the message Araki wanted to get through here. It's just non sense and stupid dialogues, and it's just amazing how he could get such a B-cast for such a bad movie. If ever you're compelled to see this trash, press forward to the scene where Elvis runs amuck and smashes time and again a guy's skull with a tin can so that you'll realize how silly this awful flick is. No plot, no acting, no ideas, just a total waste of time. Fortunately it lasts only 1h15 but it seems much longer. Good score though. 1/10 stars
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I'm 70 years old and think this film is an unrecognized masterpiece. For full disclosure, I am Gay so that may account for part of my admiration. In any event, it's a tantalizing, very sensual film. Not for all tastes of course and it would frighten some immature minds and presents some possibly-dangerous ideas in the wrong "hands." But so did Gone with The Wind for that matter. I had to watch it twice to try and understand some aspects that most will not "get." Perhaps having dropped acid back in the day did help my "getting" at least some of the film's possible meanings." One might be tempted to draw some comparisons to Penelope Spheeris' The Decline of Western Civilization which is "an American documentary film filmed through 1979 and 1980 " about the Los Angeles punk rock scene.
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This film is a sad attempt to use the trendy but taboo actions of the younger generation to make a movie with no point. By the end you are wondering what you just saw and it simply becomes a matter of whether you really even care about what you saw or not.
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XxwestsydepimpxX15 July 2007Nowhere is weirdly surrealistic and weirdly cool. I also enjoyed all the young, now-famous, actors in this film. This is all I really wanted to say about the film, however, since I need more lines, I'll just say certain aspects of the movie are alternately funny, sad, strange and still relevant today. It's hard to 'date' this movie. I'm betting twenty or thirty years from now, it will still seem up-to-date and probably still relevant. James Duval is always good and Rachel True is just beautiful. She's also a very powerful actress, turning in an excellent performance here. The whole weird, detached, alienated tone of the film made it entirely enjoyable.
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Just saw this movie and my first thoughts were: "Better than "Kids", but not as great as "Trainspotting"..!". Gregg Araki´s film appears like an MTV-documentary (or an episode of "The Real Life") about an MTV-generation, whose imagination of life exists of sex, drugs, party and Playstation - a lifestyle which is fast and exciting, but after all also very surface and empty! Shot in the style of video clip the film makes a satire from the daily life of some Generation X-kiddies, which is often too loud and too exaggerated to be really effective! However, it´s like a small wonder not to be entertained by this movie! Even actors that I normally used to dislike, in the first line Ryan Phillipe or Denise Richards, don´t make bad impressions! And the rest of the supporting cast is really de luxe: Christina Applegate, Heather Graham, Beverly D´Angelo, Traci Lords, Shannen Doherty, Rose McGowan and especially John Ritter as television preacher refine this strange but quite enjoyable shot! I´d give 7 out of 10 for a funny bubble gum-satire, that nobody should take too serious..!
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WOW, first off this movie is nothing but a big excuse for alot of sex and second, this movie is nothing but a big excuse for alot of sex!!! I watched this flick because it had so many great actors I thought " THIS HAS TO BE COOL"...NOT. After many a twisted sex scene and some down right horrible acting, I began to get the sinking feeling that this movie really was going NOWHERE. Its totally unrealistic which can be fun if there is a plot and some decent dialog...this film has neither. We as a generation might be a tad confused about life but not this confused . I honestly felt like I was watching some late night skinamax softcore, what a waste of time!
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king_ghidora10 March 2010I really liked this film, pretty much because of how "out there" it is. Gregg Araki created a trippy tale of teen angst that is so over-dramatized that it actually makes you feel drunk while you're watching it. The aliens were a nice addition, but certainly a very random one. I probably haven't seen this much drug content involving teens since I saw the film "Kids". Trust me, "Nowhere" is a movie worth watching. Expect to be feel weird after you have viewed "Nowhere", because you most likely will feel very strange-- talk about Beverly Hills 90210 on acid. The whole atmosphere of the film is reminiscent of such dystopian society displayed in movies such as "A Clockwork Orange", but I'm sure it probably wasn't intended to be that way. "Nowhere" has it all, including its share of sexual tensions between all of the characters, as well as random outbursts of insanity (at one point involving a character being brutally killed with a can of Campbell's tomato soup). "Nowhere" just might frighten you at the most unexpected time, and even if you aren't frightened or disturbed, you'll still be thinking "WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?". Beneath all of its extreme oddities, the movie is pretty much a coming-of-age film that depicts the liberal youth's urge to party like an animal on a Friday night. This, of course, is no regular Friday night, for the "party of the year" is supposed to take place. Some party it was, for it was near-literally the end of the world for some characters. You've got to love the touches of strange science fiction to "Nowhere", and of course I am referring to the trippy (and corny in a cool way) alien abductions. Also, here's a word for you that relates to the movie: bisexuality. Yes, bisexual tensions, and just enough of them for you not to say "I can't take this anymore". Despite relationship dramas throughout the movie,"Nowhere" stays away from too many romance factors to stay true to its rather avant-garde-esquire nature, which I found very pleasing. As far-fetched and messed-up the movie sounds, "Nowhere" is an entertaining movie experience. Before you watch any other Gregg Araki movies (such as the amazing "Mysterious Skin"), watch "Nowhere" because it relates to his other films and really gives you a good idea of his film-making style. Watch "Nowhere", chances are you'll think it was worth the time.