The Last Party

We were born during Vietnam.

We were kids during Watergate,

in our mid-late teens for Irangate.

And now we're all grown up for Desert Storm.

We've only known a government

that doesn't tell us the truth,

and so we've been taking it in our own hands

to find out our own truth.

We were all probably about 10 years old

when the Reagan-Bush administration

got into office,

so our view of democracy

is pretty much completely comprised of that.

Our generation is the first generation of people

who government is not a force for good in our lives.

We need to give our youth

the opportunity to run this country

because all the older ones, they've fucked the country up.

I've been in a hurry for a long time.

To achieve what?

Recognition,

appreciation,

money.

Not truth.

I'm taking you into my hero's church.

We're going to Charlie Chaplin's studios,

I'm going here for another reason,

but this is, like, my church,

and I come here, and, uh,

ask questions and usually get answers.

I won't say from who.

What interests me about Chaplin

is not so much that he was a comedic genius

but the fact that he seemed able to...

be a social critic

and, uh, and creative at the same time.

This is the stage.

This is where the films like City Lights,

Modern Times, The Great Dictator.

They were all shot here.

If you're gonna spend all the time and energy to make a film,

you might as well have it be something

that really reaches out

and does more than entertain people

because, uh...

because you give a lot of your life to do it,

so it might as well really matter.

What's my agenda? What's my agenda?

Keep going.

What's my agenda? What's my agenda?

Keep going.

What's my agenda?

I'm only starting to get a sense of this,

and it seems like the bottom line is educa...

Educat... edu...

It was good up till then, wasn't it?

Yes. Any time.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Wait.

Just cut for a second. Let me gather my thought...

Why don't I want to look in the mirror?

Because I'm, like, uncomfortable

with what I see sometimes.

Because I know myself too well.

I know I have to change.

I mean, what's this? That fear of change.

Fear and denial on the campaign trial.

Heads up. Heads up.

You are standing on a ladder,

in case people think I'm Dustin Hoffman.

Let's go, Bill, White House!

Governor Clinton, just once,

can we ask you one question

on the youth vote?

Do you intend to have anyone under 30

address, uh, address the convention

to talk to the youth vote, youth of America?

We are going to have some young people

in their 20s invest... Address the convention.

I know that there will be some.

Okay, I'm available next week

if you need any extra help.

Thanks. Bye-bye.

Hey, have a good vacation.

I promise a chicken in every pot.

I promise that science and progress

will lead to all men's happiness.

I promise if I get caught telling the truth,

I will lie my way out of it.

For me, I call it, you know,

like, the good boy and the goat boy...

You know, those... those parts of me that, uh...

that are only out

for my own instant gratification.

Delayed gratification is not something

that I was raised with a concept of.

It's important for me to stress

that it's not a frog,

that it is a goat,

and it's just I haven't honed it yet.

If you repress the goat, then he'll nail you.

I think it's interesting

that we have these two out here.

One's a Fool, which represents the youth

and the... and the...

The, uh, openness to new experience

and wanting to jump off into new things,

almost foolhardy.

The young spirit is ready

to take off into the new phase of life.

I knew that this had to do

with your visiting the conventions,

but I thought... I kept getting the feeling

that you either had been a president

or very close to a presidential candidate,

and I thought, "Oh, that's natural

"that you are discovering who you are

on this trip, aren't you?"

There is a movement in this country

and I think, really, on this planet

toward, uh, self-realization, if you want to call it that,

toward spirituality,

um, which is...

It's come about, really, out of crisis

because we are a planet in crisis.

My father came in and said, "Everything's fine,"

and we went, "Okay," and then we went to sleep.

I think probably an accurate, uh, analogy

is that of a dysfunctional family.

We have this idea that we are a society

in which a lot of dysfunctional families exist,

but I think we're missing the point

that, because of that,

we are a dysfunctional country.

My mom and dad were the... the kind of couple

that people always said would never split up.

They'd always be together. They were the perfect couple.

And then, when I was 12,

uh, well, I'll never know why.

It's really, I guess, none of my business.

I have my own ideas.

But they split up.

And my sister went with my father,

I think out to California,

and I moved to New York with my mom.

Hi, Dad.

Hi.

Hi.

Mmm.

Why did you make me ugly and shiny?

Look at me.

Who did?

You did it.

I have zits, and I'm shiny, and I'm not happy.

You mean you're blaming that on me? Yeah.

I think 2/3 of him was awake for a long time,

and a lot of what we did to ourselves he's done, too,

and he's missing some fucking pistons.

I'm okay. It's a long day.

Let's talk about the election, Dad.

Fuck you, the elections.

Listen, it's so obvious.

If you don't vote this...

This is the worst I've ever seen it in my life,

and if you don't vote this time, you know,

you shouldn't even be alive.

My dad was an underground filmmaker.

My mother was an actress.

Our house was a place

where we came and watched the dailies

of whatever film my dad was making at the time,

and, you know, I would give him foot rubs

and, you know, smoking pot

and incense and...

Seattle Kid.

I think that, uh,

a lot of us did things

and thought it would be hypocritical

to not have our kids participate

in marijuana and stuff like that,

so we thought it was cute to let him smoke it.

It was an idiot move on our parts, a lot of us,

to share that with our children,

but look, he's okay now.

I can't find my goddamn car keys.

Sorry. I can't find the car.

So anyway, there is something to that,

but generally, I don't know.

I'm just happy he's here.

That's all.

Were you ever worried

that he wasn't going to be here?

Many times.

What do you think they...

That's none of your fucking business.

Okay?

Anyway, I think it's great

that you're doing this.

I never would have figured you

for a political animal.

I'm not. I'm just starting to get into it.