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Why did Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ take away the Recommended-By / Recommended-To fields, where I would otherwise in the past insert quips about the text or in this case actually thank Mark Monday for this oddity of melting SoCal 80s-accelerated Americana. The great Bette Gordon (Variety!) adapted this in 1998 or so, transposing the action to familiar swathes of New Jersey and Staten Island, but California does feel like an apt setting for homicidal childhood fantasies of smashing through the veneer of consensus society. The conversations between the three principle viewpoints here feel have the stilted elegance of a Socratic discourse edited for punk television broadcast, but on the whole the feeling that everything is arranged as a tableaux rather than an actual story strains a little. It's both like and unlike how the film works with the material, and I have to wish I'd read this first so as to have a clearer sense of it unconstrained by expectation. Clearly, I'll have to see how Bradfield developed his themes and approach in subsequent work, such as "Animal Planet", from 1995, a two-sentence one-star review of which contains one of my all time favorite lines of Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ commentary:

I quit reading when I got to the line about the crow having to shave.