Richard Linklater: Man of Youth I had recently seen Dazed and Confused on the USA Network. First of all my Dad thought I was weird because that was the first time I saw it. Secondly he told me it would be better uncut, on video. I liked how it dealt with disfunctional youth. Suburbia also looked like it dealt with the same stuff and I would have liked to have watched Slacker, but it was not at the store. Richard Linklater liked to work with stories of younger people. Dazed and Confused showed how youth in the mid seventies used drugs and alcohol to forget about their real life. Suburbia showed youth, but in the nineties. The characters used alcohol to h