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- 2000
- R
- Shout! Factory
- 1 h 26 m
- 2000
- R
- Shout! Factory
- 1 h 26 m
Summary Penelope Spheeris's third installment in her documentary series examining the Los Angeles punk rock scene in the late 1990s.
Directed By: Penelope Spheeris
- 2000
- R
- Shout! Factory
- 1 h 26 m
- 2000
- R
- Shout! Factory
- 1 h 26 m
The Decline of Western Civilization Part III
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Summary Penelope Spheeris's third installment in her documentary series examining the Los Angeles punk rock scene in the late 1990s.
Directed By: Penelope Spheeris
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
77
78% Positive
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
22% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
0% Negative
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Those with the stomach to sit through Decline will be rewarded with a lively, masterful documentary.
Overwhelmingly powerful.
Spheeris, who includes her offscreen questions, evidently sympathizes with her subjects, though this doesn't stop her from pointing out their hypocrisy.
Best and most touching when it shows how willing punk is to eat its young.
With her unblinking but nonjudgmental eye, Spheeris doesn't shy away from the horrifying, at times violent messes these kids make of their lives, but she is always sensitive to the pain behind everything, to the unhappy futility of squandered potential.
Spheeris succeeds in creating a touching portrait, although the depressing nature of their dead-end, emotionally numb lives offers little hope for a cheerful resolution.
There's lots of atmosphere and information to be gained, but stay away unless you can tolerate graphic plunges into the wildest kinds of youthful excess.
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Production Company
Spheeris Films
Release Date Jul 7, 2000
Duration 1 h 26 m
Rating R
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Website
http://www.declinemovies.com/
Awards
Sundance Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Chicago Underground Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
