Language

Rating: Null/10 (27 November 1998)

To those who say that removing the language wouldn't have made it any less real:
bullsh....wait, sorry. Seriously, though, the language in this movie is as close to 100% accurate as any movie I've seen in a while. I'll admit that I grew up in a white-collar household, but I have had many friends over the years from blue-collar backgrounds. Both groups swear a lot. I mean a LOT. Young people, when among themselves and with people who won't be offended, tend to relax their speech. Now, is this perhaps an indictment of those young people? Depends on who you ask. But don't attack a film for a fairly realistic account of dialogue between South Boston twenty-somethings. The fault I would find on the dialogue is the snappiness of delivery, but that's the movies. Cleaning up rough dialogue just wouldn't ring as true in my opinion.