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June 29th, 2011

When I was a kid, films like Better Off Dead, The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, and many others, told stories about the seemingly infinite number of ways that being a teenager could suck..

I know these types of films are still made, and while I have no idea what the modern versions are like, my guess is that many of the same stories and stereotypes are being rehashed again and again. Different clothes. Different hair. Different music.

Now, speaking of music, I happen to listen to The Arcade Fire on occasion, and I noticed that they made a short film called, Scenes from the Suburbs, that is based on their album, The Suburbs.

In Scenes from the Suburbs, you might think that it’s going to run along some theme that you’ve seen a dozen times before, and it does, but it’s what’s going on around the characters in the suburbs that will get you to do a double take.

These aren’t the suburbs of the Lane Meyer and Ferris Bueller days. These suburbs are Snowcrash style corporate burbclaves, complete with mercenary armies, shakedowns and worse:

Watch the whole film at Mubi.