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Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Jim Jarmusch's debut 'Permanent Vacation' is said to be his student film. It does have a certain student-film feel to it mostly because of the minimalism and the actors. It is an exceptionally well shot film. However, it also felt somewhat sketchy and a few dialogues felt out of place.In a way, 'Permanent Vacation' reminded me of 'Catcher In The Rye' as the story here follows a slacker in search for meaning in New York city (it's refreshing to see the non-glamorous, non-typical Hollywoodized but rawer side of the city) before taking a permanent vacation. The plot does sound simplistic and perhaps even uninteresting to some but the film is engaging as Jarmusch immediately gets his viewers involved into the subjective world of Allie. Whereas most of Jarmusch's films are conversational, 'Permanent Vacation' is more of a wandering. The story itself may be familiar in the filmworld but it also applies to today's society. The film's also tedious at times.Chris Parker is quite effective as Allie Parker. The rest of the actors, with the exception of Frankie Faison, aren't particularly impressive but that doesn't ruin the film.Although it may have some faults, Jarmusch's first experimental film is quite a compelling debut.

I'm a big fan of Jim Jarmusch, so I decided to watch his student debut Permanent Vacation, a movie about a young and lost teenager of the generation X, who is walking threw abandoned parts of the New York City, who are having a look of a ruins after the bomb attack. Now... the movie is not bad, if you're a big fan of Jarmuschs movies you should see this movie, but it's got more bad than good points. First, the movie is most of the time quite boring with really long shots of nothing. Second, the acting is not great; the main actor doesn't deliver a good performance, it feels like he doesn't feel like he wants to make a descent performance. Third, after the really good 20 minutes the movie starts to collapse with unnecessary long shots and some boring dialogs. The movie is just 71 minutes long but it feels like you're watching it for 2 hours. Now... I liked this movie because of the great beginning and because I'm a fan of Jim Jarmusch. If you're not a fan, than don't watch this. It's more like a experimental rather than a real movie. Solid debut, but with too many bad points to stay in your memory forever.

This film was a little hard to get through, although my jet-lag probably contributed to this. It did have that student film quality to it and the "permanent vacation" line was bad. I could have done without the poorly executed voice over, the content of which contributed to an amateurish nature. Then again, is immaturity necessarily a bad thing in movies? Perhaps in this one it perfects the depressed pretentious adolescent mood, whether intentional or not. This feeling and certain images from the film, dancing, the apartment, the girl (especially), the mother, the destroyed landscape, have stayed with me this past week ... a good sign. Not one for the impatient viewer.

The monologue in the middle of this film is just about the most beautiful story I have ever heard. The only fault in the whole of this film is the point at the end where he says "I guess I'm just... on a Permanent Vacation, " and the fault here is really the actor's for overplaying this line, not Jarmusch's.