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Director:
Richard Linklater
Writer:
Richard Linklater (concept)
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Genre:
Drama more
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"It is dull, dreary..." more

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Runtime:
USA:85 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more

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This film is featured on second disc of the Slacker (1991) DVD released in 2004 by the Criterion Collection. more
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Features Gertrud (1964) more

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13 out of 26 people found the following comment useful:-
"It is dull, dreary...", 16 October 2004
Author: butterfinger

It Is Impossible to Learn to Plow By Reading Books: There is a scene in Richard Linklater's It's Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books where the protagonist meets a woman at a train station. They nervously chat for a little while and fall asleep in the lobby of the train station. Then, our protagonist wakes up and leaves a note on the stranger's luggage. This scene has more poignancy in it, and a stronger feeling of isolation in it, than all one hundred and two minutes of Lost in Translation. Learn to Plow creates an entire banal world of lobbies, passenger carts, and tiny bathrooms. It is dull, dreary, and sad.

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