Product: Kids (1995)
Rating: 5.0
Been there, done that...
"Kids" is centered around two high school kids. One finds out she has AIDS and spends the next twenty-four hours looking for the one that gave it to her. That boy's greatest goal in this movie is sexually conquering a young girl...his second in that one day. It shows this large group of kids in New York doing everything from fighting to drugs, basically being kids. I have had the misfortune of spending my teenage years in two different states in two completely different sides of the country. The second place I lived was in New Jersey...with easy access to New York City. I know this movie all too well. "Kids" is one of the most realistic movies I have ever seen, as a high school graduate of 1995. Any baby boomers that get disgusted by this movie and say they know what's going on are blind. They don't want to see that. My mother was a baby boomer and is still completely clueless to what's going on now. I knew guys like Casper and Telly. Boys like that do exist, no matter how anyone wants to deny that. Their parents are usually completely out of the loop when it comes to what their sons are doing. I frequented the club that was shown in the movie. I did the kind of things those kids did. No matter how "bad" the baby boomers were in the 60s and 70s, they haven't seen anything yet. If it was bad then, it's a thousand times worse now...except now WE DON'T TALK ABOUT IT. I am now a successful young woman with a head on my shoulders and a rather well paying job. It didn't ruin my life. In fact, some of my fondest memories are the days when I used to do that stuff. The reason why this movie was so criticized was it was the truth and everyone with children that age or close are afraid of it. This is the kind of movie you embrace, no matter how ugly it may seem. It is ugly. It's just a lot of information every parent should have. Growing up in the 90's was exceptionally difficult. No matter how much you think you know about our generation, you don't know enough and this movie explains most of it. I would recommend this to any parent with a pre-teen or older. It's a must-see.