Rewatching Dazed and Confused (1993) feels like discovering future stars every few minutes. Matthew McConaughey, Ben Affleck, Milla Jovovich, Renée Zellweger, Parker Posey… it’s almost a time capsule of Hollywood before they all broke out.
The kindest thing literature does is remind you that your peculiar little feelings have always existed. Someone, in some century, was equally confused by love, bored by society, tired of performing, and hungry for meaning.