Product: Kids (1995)
Rating: 4.0
We need more movies like this
Wether if everything depicted in this movie it's all completely real or an episode far away from reality seems to be the big deal with this movie. If you want to stick educational interests and add morale nuances to it, fine. Indeed the title suggests that this is what happens with kids, in an open, general statement. It is a powerful tool to tell kids to watch out and be careful with drugs and unsafe sex.But you could also see it as an out-of-the-average success. After all, if we are to take this movie's facts as real and average, most teens in America and the rest of the developed world would be infected with AIDS, addicts to a multitude of drugs and making their families disintegrate. This is more likely to represent a dramatic moment in the life of some teens that might not represent the whole teen world. It can be documentary if we look into some specific groups of teens growing up in frantic, highly developed cities like New York. That's it. The whole debate of "kids" showing what average kids do today is a little absurd.Instead I'll focus on the technique and the mastery of filming, character developing and storytelling. The film is powerful and delivers a high level of impact because of this as well as for the raw, rude images. The mixed elements became a singular whole, in the same way blacks, hispanics and whites team up against others or to have fun. The melting pot culture can be felt in the story almost as good as in the way the movie is done.At the bottom line, this is a movie that can be experienced by such a wide range of different people. Teens can relate to some or even all events depicted. Relaxed parents can star thinking they do not care enough for their babies. Artists and creators can witness a movie developed with flawless, accurate skills and with a hardly-seen-lately-in-movies punch and thrill. It deserves to be a popular film in all senses. Whether if you can relate to the facts or not, watch this. And make people in your life watch it. It can be for information, emotion or love for the movies. Or just for the hell of it.