Trainspotting 2 is out soon, you could give that a go. Trainspotting is based on a book that has more stories in which didn't fit in the original. The author, Irvine Welsh, also wrote a bunch of other similar stories you might enjoy, Filth is a good film made from one of them. The Acid House is too but I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.
You might like the TV series Mr. Robot, especially the second series as that fits your description to a t.

Been on any 'protests' recently?

>>21276

Excellent, thanks a lot.

>>21277
Give it a fucking rest, if you've nothing to contribute etc. I just enjoy the genre because it's something a bit different.

>>21278
I forgot, Fight Club is an obvious choice of films that fit what you describe and is also a book. A fair few of Chuck Palahniuk's novels are that sort of thing, just have a look at some of the blurbs. Same goes for Bret Easton Ellis and the films made from his work. It's all pop-literature so they were made with large budgets.

Network seems to fit the bill of what you're looking for. It also does something that most works like that fail to do by examining how performative rejection of "the system" is rewarded by that same system.

Human Traffic is a great one.

>>21281

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fc0kPAPNahU

>>21280
As someone who has yet to get around to watching Network can you clue me into the gist of it - obviously I know about 'I'm mad as hell etc.' but whenever I see a summary it just says 'when broadcaster goes insane on air his producers attempt to exploit it for ratings'. So, what, he's mad as hell for a whole hour and half?

>>21283
Did you see the second ever Black Mirror episode? It's that.

>>21284
Fifty Million Merits? Er? How is that... oh right. I see.

>>21281

Human trafic always stuck me as the pedestrian version of Danny Boyle film.

>>21275

Not sure if it is quite what you are looking for but 'fear and loathing in las vegas' sounds like it meets your criteria, It is something of a criticm of the american dream and the 60s counter culture, wrapped up in a introspective weekend long paronia inducing drug trip.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUgs2O7Okqc

I get annoyed by professed 'anti consumptionists' who seem to have spent an inordinate amount of money on drugs.

Filth is a good book but the film was comparatively PG.

>>21276
I rewatched The Acid House recently, having not seen it since it since I was a teenager. Quite enjoyed it, though it's obviously a product of its time. What do you dislike about it?

> I have a penchant for films that take an anti-consumerist, self-critical look at society, sometimes with third person narration whilst somebody fights some sort of internal struggle.

Why has no one mentioned Withnail and I yet?

>>21287

> Filth is a good book but the film was comparatively PG.

This. I can recommend Filth, Porno, and Skagboys as Irvine Welsh books that largely carry the raw edged feel of Trainspotting over. I have this terrible fear that "Trainspotting 2" will be some awful mish-mash of elements of Porno, Scagboys, and some bastardised version of the end of The Blade Artist and that the whole thing will be ruined by Welsh's post-American mediocrity. This will definitely trigger the autist in me, big time.

>>21288
I just didn't feel engaged with any of the stories. Too much a product of its time maybe.

>>21289
>anti-consumerist, self-critical look at society, sometimes with third person narration whilst somebody fights some sort of internal struggle
>Why has no one mentioned Withnail and I yet?


Because the only one of those things Whitnail and I has is narration.

>>21291

I think you should watch it again. All three of the main characters are going through an internal struggle of some kind while society is criticised on a number of levels from the criminalization of homosexuality to Woolworth's selling "hippie wigs".

>>21291

It's one of those films you don't fully get unless you watch it reasonably high.

>>21292
>Criticses... Criminalization of homosexuality

It doesn't though, it mentions it in the sense that it is relivant for the period, and at one point 'And I' is nearly raped by one, hardly a criticism of the law and a promotion of homosexuality is it.

>Criticses... Woolworth's selling "hippie wigs"

It isn't a theme it is something said in passing by a man who ramblings also cover hair picking up signals from the cosmos. I personally wouldn't read into anything he says as being a valid criticism.


>>21293

I assure you I have watched and 'got it' and been higher than you will ever know, I could take double anything you could. Lord Smug Protector of the Pretentious, Guardian of what is to be got.

>>21294

> It isn't a theme

No, it'd be quite hard to make a film where criticising Woolworth's merchandise was a major theme (although I'd be sure to watch such a film if someone were to make it). It is, however, just one example of the many critiques made against society generally in the film. I think the the film is quite overwhelming in its delivery in such a way as to hide the fact that seemingly unrelated "quotes" and scenes actually manage to tie in together as a social critique.

Sage for rambling off topic again.

>>21294
>a man who ramblings also cover hair picking up signals from the cosmos.
He's a great character. He plays the same character again in Wayne's World 2. Looking at it now, that appears to be roughly the same flat that he's in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReT3s0siI_Q

>>21296
I had a look and it definitely is. What a nice touch.

>>21296
>>21297

I'll admit that I haven't seen Wayne's World 2 (or 1) in some twenty years but now you've really boggled my noggin. I'm going to have to look into this.

Dunno if American Psycho would be too far off the mark to be worth suggesting, but it's an enjoyable film.