If your American culture is cold and sterile, you need to get out more.
American culture is vibrant and exciting and pedestrian and weird, NOW, in the very places where that film was shot.
Heck, even my far-away suburb has much more going on than just 20 years ago.
There are definitely some neat things about the the old Los Angeles we should fight to preserve.
But the new Southern California is better.
Especially if you’re not white.