If you're like me, you use the vehicle of film as an outlet to escape the cumbersome and crushing weight of existence of the ever changing world around us. Watching a story that contextualizes the world in a way that's hopeful or life affirming makes all the scary stuff seem more manageable. For your sake I hope you're better adjusted, but if not, you're not alone, friend. While movies are my all-time favorite artistic medium, a very close contender for me is music—particularly punk music. As a mild-mannered quiet kid, punk ethos really helped me get out of my shell and view the world in a way that felt a little less scary and overbearing. While I never went full punk (my parents are nice and I was too self conscious to get a mohawk, okay), I always appreciated the humanist side of punk. At it's core, punk represents a marginalized society rejected by basic social norms and the conscious act not to conform to something just because it's what "you're supposed to do", or whatever. Thus, in honor of a particularly anxiety-inducing election day, I'm leaning into a cathartic crossover of escapism by revisiting punk in film. I've assembled a list of my 10 favorites if you'd like to join. Let's start with a little breakdown of punk as a theme, and then meet me in the pit for the list below. OY! The Thematic Relevance of Punk in FilmPunk at its core is a music movement that sought...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Wednesday, 6 November