Product: Kids (1995)
Rating: 5.0
'Kids' is an education in possibilities
I feel compelled to throw my two cents on a review. Why? Because if I had seen the movie Kids sooner, it might have shaken me out of my obliviousness before I contracted a permanent STD when I was 20.Any review of this movie that's generally negative, or fails to get the point, or cries for an explanation is from an ADULT looking at the movie Kids and not remembering the beasts that were around them in teenagerdom, and thus thinking that this movie "misses something."What it misses is the happy ending - the warm fuzzy feeling that everything will be alright, and we can go back to pointless consumerism/prescription drugs/TV - whatever distracts us from the fact that not just shabby queers get AIDS.This movie doesn't pretend to answer any questions because it's an alarm for <*YOU*> to find the answer to the growing problem of sexuality as a deadly force in teenage society and beyond.In your day-to-day hustle and bustle you might just forget that people do live this way, and sh** does happen. All this movie aims to do is remind you of that, and hopefully stick with you and make the waste of a generation that is today's youth think twice (or at all), and understand the concept of *consequences.*