The Parking Lot Movie: SXSW 2010 Accepted Film

The Parking Lot Movie is a documentary about a singular parking lot in Charlottesville, Virginia and the select group of parking lot attendants that inhabit its microcosm. The attendants are a uniquely varied group of men comprised of undergraduate and graduate students, artists, musicians, intellectuals, philosophers and marginal-type characters.

A strange rite of passage for all involved everything from cars and license plates, class struggles, capitalism, anger, justice, drunkenness, and awareness receive daily scrutiny and detailing. For these denizens of Charlottesville, the intersection between the status quo and the quest for freedom becomes the challenge. Something as simple as a parking lot becomes an emotional weigh station for The American Dream. In the end, as one attendant interestingly puts it, We had it all in a world that had nothing to offer us.

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[sherpa285]

I'd say 'hipster' misses the mark by a mile. I'd say the young men in this doc are dyed-in-the-wool intellectuals. If they were hipsters, there'd be a lot more white-leather studded belts and shit-music.

[jasezer]

Enough with all the hipster hate. You're not achieving anything by putting yourself on some pedestal above everyone else, and saying "Look at those fucking hipsters, don't they suck, all pretentious and shit." You sound like a jackass.

[tonyxBAx]

@toastnuances good luck staying poor and stupid, buddy

[TylerDurden97]

Smug, crybaby assholes. Waste of good film.

[tonyxBAx]

@toastnuances You can laugh all you want, little loser, but it's the truth. That's why some of us are richer than others.

[toastnuances]

@tonyxBAx lmfao

[tonyxBAx]

@toastnuances and how exactly is being a capitalist something to get "beat up" over? Capitalism is what it takes to save America

[dudeXthisWaSsoTONYx]

@toastnuances "merc'd" "owny"? Are you serious? Do you EVER leave your house?

[toastnuances]

@dudeXthisWaSsoTONYx nope, social mobility is dead and has been for a hundred years :( I hope when you reflect on had bad you got merc'd in this conversation you think "dude this was so owny"

[dudeXthisWaSsoTONYx]

@toastnuances yeah I'm SO afraid of someone who uses empty threats behind a computer screen. Perhaps if you left your mom's basement once in a while, you could BE a rich white, or whatever race you are

[toastnuances]

@dudeXthisWaSsoTONYx looks like we got a capitalist over here, boys. you know what to do *a bunch of burly men descend upon u as the camera fades to black*

[dudeXthisWaSsoTONYx]

@toastnuances the ones who always rip on rich whites and complain about their money and expect free handouts