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The Star Wars series aside, films don't change as the years go by. What changes is the viewer. Released between my freshman and sophomore years of high school, Go was a big film for me. I'd just started hanging out with a new group of friends and was experiencing a lot of firsts. Though I wasn't having nights as wild as the one depicted, Go felt true to the life I was living. So what if my point of reference character was Claire? Having recently re-watched it at the age of 28, the film now feels like a eulogy. A requiem for those nights when we were immortal and the most important question was, "What's next?" I don't give a fuck if the depiction of rave culture is 'inaccurate' and I don't care if it's a 'rip-off' of Pulp Fiction; this film has elicited strong emotional responses from me at two drastically different times in my life. How many films in your life can you honestly say that about?
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