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Movie Reviews of Thirteen
Movie Review: One of my favorite movies of all time
Summary: 5 Stars
*contains spoilers*
The story really got to me. 13 year old Tracy wanted to fit in with the popular girls at school, most notably Evie. Tracy gets Evie's number to hang out, only for it to be a non working number. She goes to the shop where Evie was shoplifting, and she intentionally gave Tracy a wrong number. She pick pocketed a lady at a bus stop, and Tracy instantly becomes Evie's friend. Although she is with the popular crowd, she shuns her old friends and follows Evie in the path of sex and drugs. She also self mutilated her arm a few times in the movie (I have went through a minor phase like that when I was 14) whenever she got really stressed.
Evie had a depressing background, as she said she was abused by her guardian's boyfriend and such. She wanted to be adopted by Tracy's family. She envied Tracy because she had the things she wanted (a mother, family love, etc). She was not adopted and betrays Tracy near the end of the film.
Near the end, Tracy was on the verge of failing the 7th grade, I will not spoil any further now.
Parts of the movie did make me cry, a little. Such as seeing Evie crying because she didnt get adopted, and the ending which I will not reveal in this review. Stuff like this is happening out there in real life and I really want to do something about it. I have watched this film about 12 times so far. Overall, this is a really great and a depressing move, parents and teachers should show this film to teenagers, especially if they turned 13.
If you liked this movie, you will like Ken Park's "Kids", which has a more grittier feel as opposed to Thirteen's Hollywood feel. Plus Kids is much more graphic, and if that was not enough for you, you should also watch "Ken Park"
Movie Review: Two 13-year old girls out of control! Excellent story.
Summary: 5 Stars
Wow! That's the only word that comes to mind about this 2003 film. I felt I had just been on a wild roller coaster ride into the lives of a couple of 13-year old girls who are out of control and going too far in their experiments with life. The film is written directed by Catherine Hardwick who I understand met Nicki Reed, a troubled 13 year old and suggested that she keep a diary. This film is a direct result of that diary with Nicki Reed, who is listed as a co-writer, cast in the role of the bad girl. The other young star is Evan Rachel Wood, who starts out as a well-behaved seventh grader, but who, under the influence of her friend, starts to run wild too. Their performances are so real that I cringed constantly, remembering my own early youth. And then there is Holly Hunter, cast as Evan Rachel Wood's mother who loves her daughter but is overwhelmed with her own life and clueless about how to help. Some of these scenes between mother and daughter are heart wrenching and tributes to love. This film packs a big punch.
Along the way we get a glimpse of the lifestyle of some California teenagers. O.K. Maybe they aren't typical. But they do exist and we pass them on the street every day. They have pierced tongues and navels. They wear provocative clothes. They hang out at the Mall and shoplift like crazy. Of course there are boys in their lives. And steamy romances. And easy access to every kind of drug imaginable. Sometimes they even practice self-mutilation.
The film is fast paced, the dialog is crisp and nasty, the settings absolutely realistic. There's tension throughout and it never lets up. I was completely swept into the story. This is not a comfortable film to watch, but I think it's a "must see". Highly recommended.
Movie Review: Thirteen is a wake up call for parents
Summary: 5 Stars
This film deals with adolescent girls living in a lower middle class milieu where the fathers are absent. Are we talking about dysfunctional families? Indeed, we most certainly are. Evie (Nikki Reed) is a hardened manipulator who may even be a remorseless sociopath. She is already more than a bit slutty and a loser going nowhere fast. The very concept of delayed gratification is utterly alien to her. Getting high and shop lifting are preferable to acquiring an education. The opposite is true for Tracy (Evan Rachel Wood), a shy girl who earns good grades. Her mother Melanie (Holly Hunter) is divorced from a man who has opted for a solidly middle class life. He has little time for either Tracy or her brother, Brady. Evie is considered to be the most popular girl at school, and Tracy wants to join her inner circle. Sadly, this goal is achieved and Tracy's life begins to rapidly fall apart. The audience is in for a rough ride. Many of the scenes in Thirteen are not for the squeamish. Watching a young girl cut into her arm with various sharp objects almost made me turn my head away from the screen. Thirteen is highly recommended for all parents, teenagers, and anyone involved in helping teenagers grow into mature adults.
Why did it get an R rating? This may be due to Holly Hunter's totally unnecessary and gratuitous nude scene. What was director Catherine Hardwicke thinking? Did the producers, for some bizarre reason, demand that this be done? Oh well, Hardwicke still directed a first rate production. She easily earns five stars for her efforts. Nikki Reed is also credited with co-authoring the script. One can only hope that this young lady never directly experienced the trial and tribulations she so admirably writes about.
Movie Review: Scary Portrait of Female Adolescence
Summary: 5 Stars
I warned a single Mom of teenage daughters co-worker of watching this movie that it just may scare her worse than Freddie Kruger or Hannibal Lecter. No, "Thirteen" most definitely isn't in the horror flick genre, but it's ability to frighten speaks to the film's unflinching portrait of the pressures of adolescence for young girls becoming women. Parents of teenage daughters may wince, but it seems to offer a more complete understanding or reminder of what those formative years could be like.There are some pretty amazing performances here, top of which is turned in by Holly Hunter as a single mom divorcee, reformed addict trying desperately to hold herself and family together. Her performance is honest, true, and entirely believable. Also amazing is the performance turned in by Evan Rachel Wood as the misguided and mal-influenced teen that takes a tailspin dive when following popularity at the hands of a manipulative "it" girl. And now to the best performance that turned in by the "it" girl played by Nikki Reed. Here's the catch and the amazing story behind "thirteen." Reed's top bill performance isn't on screen. She wrote the screenplay as a teenager, a simply phenomenal accomplishment; we get the vision straight from the horse's mouth. That's accounts for the film;s truism.
Don't miss this film. Scenes of shopping and model ads may seem like a unoriginal trademark tool in other films but they underlie the message of the pressure we as a society place on young girls to be cool, to be beautiful, to be thin, to be in. That's pressure a developing young adult could do without. Yet another fine point driving you to watch "Thirteen." Don't miss it.
--MMW
Movie Review: really thirteen????
Summary: 5 Stars
When i first heard about this film, i though WOW!! it got great reviews, but DAMN its an 18! wat? its about thirteen year olds!!! so i waited util it was out on dvd! naturlly i watched expecting to be mesmirised, but at the end of the film i could help but feel dissapointed. so refrained from watching it again.
one day i watched it again and it made me burst into tears, as i thought about me and all my friends, as it seems we're all going down the same road as Evie and Tracy.
why didnt i enjoy it the first? well isnt that obvious i wasnt mature enough to watch the movie, i couldnt empathise with the charchters to find it emotional enough, as that is what the film is really all about EMOTIOM!!!
what i really enjoyed about this film is that it showes what really happens as a teen, when you dicover drink drugs and sex!!
and it doesnt show them as having a blast, it shows how dark it can realy be, that sometimes what s on the outside is just ski, not who a person really is!!!
this film shows teens as real as it can be, although the 18 certificate is so you can protect kids from the whole sex, drugs and rock n roll attitude ut gives off, its just kids probaly wont enjoy the film untill theyv experinced loif enough to see whats rally going on.
i have only one critism of this film is that Tracy and Evie dont really look thirttenn more like 15, but that doesnt change anything about the fil.
full of nail biting emotion, and is a real teer jerker. keep the tissies near by. show s a real insight to the teen world, that should be seen by both adults and teens all over. THIS FILM ROCKS