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[nonionay]

Watched Rent last night over at hawkdancer's place. I understand why people make such a big deal about it, and the music's great, some of the messages are great (live life, AIDS sucks, be yourself), but wow, can we say, self-centered?

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[hawkdancer.livejournal.com]

It's about this group of parasitic friends who want to live in this huge apartment rent-free and get all pissy when their landlord tells them they can't. They also do some protesting, but that's mostly just because one of them is a self-absorbed drama queen.

I love it for the music and the decent messages.

[criada.livejournal.com]

Yeah, what Jesse said. :-) One of them gets a job and worries about selling out. Their ultimate solution to not having money is to rewire the city ATMs so that when they punch in the name of their dead-from-AIDS friend, it gives them free money.

[criada.livejournal.com]

But having free rent doesn't mean you shouldn't have a job or think about being connected to the rest of the world, rather than living in a hermetically sealed fantasy land where food magically appears and you can kill dogs for extra cash. And try to have sex with people when you know you have AIDS!

[hawkdancer.livejournal.com]

Heehee yeah...

[hoorayiwake.livejournal.com]

I love it, too, but... you do know that it was completely ripped off from Puccini's "La Boheme," right?