Product: Kids (1995)
Rating: 5.0
Powerful
First of all, I would like to say that this is possibly one of the realest films I have ever seen. It really proves a point, and the way it has a real-time feel makes it more realistic, compared to other supposed "similar" films, like Thirteen. Which brings me to my second point.This movie should not be compared to Thirteen, because Thirteen is not nearly as shocking, graphic, or believable. It gets one star in my book; also the plot and the characters were quite boring to me.Even though KIDS takes place in New York City, which is one of the biggest cities, this kind of behavior takes place everywhere..this is the truth. In fact, I was friends with kids like Casper and Telly in high school, which sort of made the shock value of this film significantly less for me. Reguardless, the AIDS situation is quite realistic in this movie. It definitely makes you think before your next endeavor with a sexual partner.The soundtrack also made this movie awesome to me. Sebadoh and The Folk Implosion make great music, along with Slint, who's song is not in the movie, but on the soundtrack.To all of you teenagers bashing this movie, claiming this does not really happen: Crawl out from underneath the rock you have been living under, or stop denying reality, because I am 100% sure the whole situation of this movie is happening in almost all urban and rural areas right now.