The theory of Clerks

Chapter 11 covers many different film Theories that a movie may follow. Well to me Clerks almost falls into the neorealist theory. Stylisticly it follows the formula for neorealism. The story has episodes that evolve from the situation of the characters. Dante constintly reminds everyone that he was not even suppose to be at work that day. If he had not said yes to working he would still have Veronica as a girl friend, Kaitlyn would not be traumitized and he would not have faught with Randel nor been involved in the casket being knocked over and in the origanil cut Dante would still be alive. The film is done in a real convinent store. Kevin Smith used unknown actors some as several characters with costume change. The entire movie is conversational speech between Dante and Randel. Finally the movie has a styleless style. It does however focus on laborers and just plane common people just someone trying to stay in their comfort zone with out making any real changes that would bring on a challenge. There are no underlying messages in this story which is why it falls short of the neorealism theory.