Themes
Universal Groove explores many different themes, each centering around the film's eight characters. These themes include free-spirited drug use, release, escape from one's troubles, the first-time experience, homosexuality, and man's everlasting struggle to blend in and leave a mark.
Each of the main characters grapples with one of these themes while attempting to wrest themselves from the problem that currently confronts them: Jim has writer's block and is late on a difficult deadline; Eve is wholly uninspired; Beamer has just lost a pile of money on the stock market; Zed is too wound up to enjoy life; Gina is uncomfortable in her own skin; Candy and Kane have nothing to ground them in life except each other; Push needs a party to confirm his existence.
The original version also intended to explore the global connection that exists between people as a party grows. However critical footage was stolen during a robbery at a post-production facility, and thus this element was lost.
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