Product: Kids (1995)
Rating: 5.0
Like watching a trainwreck
I'm a little surprised by the critical Amazon.com review. If there is any middle-class sensibility finger wagging from the film's director, then I sure can't see it. This film doesn't offer answers, it reveals a world that most adults choose to ignore. These kids are on a collision course that is fostered by conformity, insecurity, poverty and violence. There is no easy solution, and to pretend that there is would be worse than useless.As far as the acting is concerned, EVERYONE is superb. The "documentary" approach used by the director & cinematographer clicks perfectly with the realistic acting performances. Even though most of the kids are portrayed as repulsive, you can't help but feel for them. Instead of caricatures, we see insecure young people who are engulfed by a very destructive conformity to violence & extreme promiscuity..I'm not saying that people aren't responsible for their actions. But, I think it's fair to say that anyone who could actually transcend an environment such as the one portrayed in the film who be a very rare individual.