It's not easy to find a movie that pins a hard finger on society's most painful wound: what we NOT teach our young ones.

Rating: 9/10 (28 February 2000)

It's not easy to count the number of American Hollywood movies that take that step between entertainment and social standing... Tony Kaye, as we say down here in México... put on his pants and wore them!
The camera work is excellent, with a well balanced, well calibrated cinematography, and a no less POWERFUL directing. Going from one time frame to another is not easy even for someone that is telling the story as they remember it little alone for a director that is also the camera operator and cinematographer... MASTER'S WORK TONY!
The screenplay is great, keeping a wonderful pace all over the film, not just telling the story, but really driving the watcher to it's most profound feeling of... what ever the moment.
Once again, Ed Norton gave a performance unparalleled, in a role that was probably conceived for a mind and talent sucha s Nortons. Wow!
As entertainment, is a powerful rollercoaster that either you, nor your younger bros' ands sis' should see before bedtime if you don't have an open mind about the implications of what you see in the film.
I was at the edge of the couch for minutes that seemed to have more than 60secs. Not only that, it happened more that twice.
The most powerful scene of the movie IS NOT of violence or sex, it's not even spoken, it's just a picture... it will come to you.
Kaye, McKenna and Norton made me think about my teenage kids, about the way they think, about the friends they have, about the advice I give them in an average breakfast before school, about the school they're inn and the kids that attend to it...
It's not easy to find in today's movie business a movie that compromises, points and pins a hard finger on today's society's most painful wound: what we NOT teach our young ones.