What an electric and alive documentary this is. I am really starting to get drawn into the style of the of ‘70s/‘80s documentaries. They feel way more journalistic than present day docs, in as much as they feel old and interview and less focused on being a real fly on the wall (to contrast it with something like HONEYLAND that plays like a dramatic film but is actually a documentary). I may be biased because of my love of punk rock and specifically the ‘80s punk scene, but the world that Penelope Spheeris digs into must have been eye opening in the early ‘80s. The energy of punk rock is in the DNA of this film and you completely understand this world from top to bottom by the end of it.
