I watched an independent movie "Clerks" which directed by Kevin Smith last week. it is a story about a clerk named Dante Hicksone deal with multiple problems on his particular Saturday. There are only two performing places for the whole film, one is a local convenience store and the other is DVD store. So there are no special-effect scenes and famous actors. But if you dig humor of life , then this film delivers the goods with the dialogue. I think the question for everyone before watch the movie is were you as happy in your 20s as you think you were? obviously the clerk wasn't, whatever career or girlfriend.
The film remind me think about Tim Crouch's play 'The Author'. it also have intelligent dialogue but no stage. It's an brilliant idea for the communication which explores the boundaries between actors and spectators. I found the dialogue is so powerful at that time.
However I also believe that visual impact is as the same standing as script. an two hours play cannot perform without lighting design and stage design, each part cannot attract the audience by itself till two hours.
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