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Movie Reviews of Kids
Movie Review: Old story, but superbly written and acted.
Summary: 5 Stars
Okay, Kids often feels like a documentary. It's filmed in a very simple style, and the dialogue is so life-like that it feels unscripted. But it is scripted, of course, and the film is somewhat stylized. For all its alleged obscenity, it actually takes a fairly conservative stance. Casual sex is equated with AIDS, which of course is equated with death. It's a classic cautionary tale, just written and acted in a hyper-real fashion. Of course, that is what makes it so effective. This film probably did more to promote abstinence than all the sermons in the world.
It's interesting to note that, for all his amorality, Telly actually has a bit of the romantic in him. His justification for seducing virgins is that they will remember him as long as they live. There's something of the decadent aesthetic in that. And, as strange as it may seem, it's touchingly naive. In fact, it's the girls, not Telly, who are the most cynical about sex. Their conversation between themselves would have dashed all of his illusions, had he been around to hear it. It is a very perceptive, if unpleasant observation on the film's part. This sort of attention to reality is what makes it so compelling.
Movie Review: This moving is as disturbing as it is poignent
Summary: 5 Stars
It's hard to review something that really gives you a gut feeling of disgust and anger. But then again, the REASONS for that disgust or anger is because the movie is believable. It's a kind of rough film, edited in a way that it seems kind of gritty, with home video feel to it. The story is of the idle time of kids essentially on the streets in New York and is also kind of a "coming of age" film, with a HUGE twist.
It also is a movie to show the dangers of sex, drugs and alcohol, and it does so through the tales of numerous kids in the story, most notebly Telly (played by Leo Fitzpatrick), his friend Casper, and also characters played by Rosario Dawson and Chloe Sevegny. It's hauntingly believable and the "surprise ending" is both disgusting and kind of fitting.
I'd recommend this movie to anyone, but I don't think I could OWN it. It's kind of one of those things you're happy you've seen, but also glad you don't HAVE to see it again. Powerful and painful in one blow, this is a completely unforgettable movie. It's just too bad that sometimes you don't forget things because they leave haunting images of reality in your mind.
Movie Review: "Take that away, and i got nothing"
Summary: 5 Stars
If you are looking for a suger coated, teeny bopper, happily ever after movie, your looking in the wrong place. If you are looking for an uncut,make you think,even scare you a little,make you angry at the way people live their lives movie, KIDS is this and more. The movie is 24 hours of the life of teenagers in NYC. The cinematography is great, and its in a way like a documentry. Like all movies, you get into it, and follow the charecters, and i myself felt sad when Jenny discovers she is sick, all due to the stupidity of one boy, our main charecter, Telly.
Words cannot describe this movie. It is a must see. Although, this is not rated, i suggest that if people under 17 are to see it, for it to be used as educational purposes only. The movie contains extremely foul language, 3 sex scenes, and drug/alchol use.
The movie is trying to get the point across that Teenagers think they are invinciable, and all the stories they hear about AIDS are just stories, and it could "never happen to them", until it does. Carelessness,stupidity,ignorance all contribute to 5 charecters, in this movie becoming infected with the uncurable disease.
Movie Review: One way or another you'll remember this 1995 movie ....
Summary: 5 Stars
as you would have remembered the Stanley Kubrik movie 'A Clockwork Orange' this film is like screen burn on your monitor it will leave it's mark. The movie is compressed into a 24 hour period of time and the main characters; Telly, the aids infected looser whose total aim in life is deflowering as many virgins as he can, and, Jennie, one of his conquests that just found out she's postive and has only slept with Telly.
Unfortunately, as much as the viewer would like to deny it, the movie is a very true to life 'hardcore' look at a much too large segment of our disaffected urban teens of today. One does not have to go too far to remember the NY Latin day festival in 2000 when raging bands of teenage youths attacked young women on the street scandalously right in front of the cops. (...) On a tchnical note, don't expect your wide screen TV to shine since the video resolution that this movie was shot in does not really allow for more than the letterbox version on the DVD. The sound is pretty boring too and comes across as a two channel mono, and, the director sure saved money on the soundtrack too since there is none ....
Movie Review: Like watching a trainwreck
Summary: 5 Stars
I'm a little surprised by the critical Amazon.com review. If there is any middle-class sensibility finger wagging from the film's director, then I sure can't see it. This film doesn't offer answers, it reveals a world that most adults choose to ignore. These kids are on a collision course that is fostered by conformity, insecurity, poverty and violence. There is no easy solution, and to pretend that there is would be worse than useless. As far as the acting is concerned, EVERYONE is superb. The "documentary" approach used by the director & cinematographer clicks perfectly with the realistic acting performances. Even though most of the kids are portrayed as repulsive, you can't help but feel for them. Instead of caricatures, we see insecure young people who are engulfed by a very destructive conformity to violence & extreme promiscuity..
I'm not saying that people aren't responsible for their actions. But, I think it's fair to say that anyone who could actually transcend an environment such as the one portrayed in the film who be a very rare individual.