Want a social commentary, go rent Ice Storm.

Rating: 1/10 (30 June 2000)

Trash, Trash, unreal trash. Again, the Oscar's give the film that most condemns middle-class America in the most unrealistic fashion the award. The film is chock full of stereo-typical out the box, stock characters. A 17-year-old who has amassed a $40,000 dollar fortune selling high grade weed. Ask anyone who knows about the drug business, and they will tell you what an unreal pie in the sky fantasy that is. And let's take Ricky Fitts rambling narrative, " It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowing and there's this electricity in the air, you can almost hear it, right? And this bag was like, dancing with me..." have you ever heard anyone ever speak like this? Even the most hardcore beatniks aren't this kooky. For a movie trying to sell it's self a real, disturbing view of middle class America; it fails poorly. Is it really middle class Americans who have the time to have affairs with high school children? No...those are indulgences of the rich. Change this movie to a social commentary on the rich, and maybe I would have liked it. Any person from the middle class could tell you that they don't have time to do the insane things the people in this film do. The rich are the people with time, money, and dollar bill induced boredom to pursue perverse and odd social behavior. If you want to see real characters, in a truly disturbing social commentary, rent the Ice Storm. Otherwise let the "rich folk" over at the Oscar's to continually bash the middle class and line their pockets with their misery.