The promo for this film is absolutely right. This film is depicting a culture. Across the country, blue-collar, dayjob-working, non-college educated workers immediatly associated with this film. Often, "getting by" becomes a parody in itself. Otherwise, that sense of getting nowhere with your life, of utter despair, could be overwhelming. But, as this film shows , even those little oddities and coincidences that happen every day in life can be fulfilling and entertaining if you just know how to view them. And Kevin Smith has done this with piercing precision, with an ear for natural dialogue that matches that of Mamet-esqe perfection. And, for those who find the vulgarity offensive, take a job at a convenience store like that one and you'll see pretty quickly that this is simply incorporating the kind of coarse dialect that is more commonplace in society today than it has been in decades before. As they say, art imitates life. And this is about as true to life as many people have seen on the big screen before.
