Daily Dialogue — May 10, 2015

“And they wonder why those of us in our twenties refuse to work an 80-hour week just so we can afford to buy their BMWs, why we aren’t interested in the counterculture that they invented as if we did not see them disembowel their revolution for a pair of running shoes. But the question remains what are we going to do now? How can we repair all the damage we inherited? Fellow graduates, the answer is simple. The answer is… the answer is… I don’t know.”

— Reality Bites (1994), written by Helen Childress

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Graduation.

Trivia: Screenwriter Helen Childress was 19 years old and a freshman at USC when she completed the script.

Dialogue On Dialogue: This homage to Gen X begins with video footage of graduation, its characters crossing that threshold to enter the New World of lousy jobs, scant dollars, and an uncertain future. Kind of like what the Millennials are facing, too. Some things never change.