Product: Kids (1995)
Rating: 5.0
A Cultural Study
This movie is more than just a "Be Protected" sex-ed movie. It is a brilliantly filmed, excellently acted, synopsys of street life in the 90's. -It is a study of culture.The 60's brought the freedom to be sexual, do drugs, and escape from the cages society had put young people in. Kids shows a world where kids are following the same rules as the 60's, but something is different. Now they are prisoners of their sexuality, and abusers of their drugs. It's like stepping outside of a prison cell to freedom, only to find that when you close the door behind you, you're just in another cell.What do we do about this oppressive have-sex-as-soon-as- possible-and-abuse-drugs-irresponsibly culture? I don't know, and I don't think the director knows either. But these kids are the symptom, and the victim, of it.Don't blame them.