Re: Kids.
Michael Bolotin (mlb6c@server1.mail.virginia.edu)
Sat, 22 Feb 1997 21:34:15 -0500 ()
> Ihate to add to the non-music thread but my prob. with KIDS wasn't it
> potential influence(the kind of kids that the movie portrays probably
> laugh at the movie during parties....they probably play drinking games
> to it and totaly ignore the "point")...my problem is just the fact that
> it had very few sympathetic characters(yeah, yeah, i know; that's part
> of the point...); but i would have loved to seen just about every
> character get hit by a bus...it just seemed like a simple-simon
> film-school movie...half-way decent idea poorly executed...("the kids of
> today are just like so jaded, and they like take drugs, and have sex,
> and, like, beat people up, just to feel, man!") i prefer my mirrors to
> be a little more artfull....
> just one guy's opinion,
> Brian
> (does have a pretty good soundtrack, tho...i dig the UNKLE remix of
> "natural one")
I think that you are also being overly critical of the movie. When I
was a kid of that age I did all those things (of course I never raped a
girl though!), and I think that a lot of people of previous generations
are not aware of a lot of that stuff. I think exposing that lifestyle,
aside from the AIDS message, gives the film a purpose.
-Mike