Penelope Spheeris’s is widely regarded as a raw, documentary-style "counterculture masterpiece". Following her landmark documentary The Decline of Western Civilization , Spheeris used actual street kids and punk musicians to depict a "throwaway society" of runaways finding a surrogate family in abandoned housing tracts. Core Themes and Social Commentary
Penelope Spheeris’s is widely regarded as a raw, documentary-style "counterculture masterpiece". Following her landmark documentary The Decline of Western Civilization , Spheeris used actual street kids and punk musicians to depict a "throwaway society" of runaways finding a surrogate family in abandoned housing tracts. Core Themes and Social Commentary
