Product: Kids (1995)
Rating: 1.0
A modern-day "Reefer Madness"
I watched this film with some at-risk teenagers and probably the funniest comment I heard was, "They made this movie like a documentary because the rest of it is so fake." When I first saw it, I was like other people who think that this is an artistic reflection of real life. I grew up with kids who used drugs and sex for recreation, and I imagined that things had gotten worse since I left my teens.Then I listened to the comments of teens who have lived in crackhouses, who have been shot at, who were raised by folks who traded their bodies for drugs or cash - and THEY'RE saying this movie is unrealistic.Telly, with his multitude of willing virgins, is more a dark fantasy of a teenage player than a real teen - rather like "Reefer Madness," which had more to do with middle-class America's fear of marijuana than actual drug use. I wonder if this film will seem as dated in a few more decades as "message" films from the '60s and '70s.