It's about Beauty

Rating: Null/10 (12 April 2001)

There are already plenty of plot capsules in this listing, so I'll just stick to why I think this is the greatest movie of the nineties:
Beauty.
People who found this movie boring, or who thought all the immorality (sex, drug dealing, etc..) somehow destroyed the message are missing the whole point. This is a movie about finding beauty in your life, and making it more beautiful if you can. Yes it is just a plastic bag floating in the breeze. Its just a plastic bag, and the kid sees it dancing for him, and that's beautiful, not perfect roses, not girls in hootchie pants, just an everyday little moment, like a dead bird, or a someone walking into their house.
A special note about the sex. If you think that two teens having sex with each other cheapens their relationship, you have a very narrow view of sex. Sex can be, and was for those two characters, an expression of trust. Again, its beautiful.
The whole movie, after all, was about Beauty.