<div style='font: 10pt Arial; text-align: left; '>This is a very...off beat film. I may have to watch it again and update this review. It was a bit hard to follow and played out something like almost like how a comic book story plays out. I'm not comparing the story of the movie to a comic book, but the layout, the way the scenes cut away, the narration, it was as if I was reading a comic book, or rather watching one. I picked this movie up last night for $7 at Blockbuster along with finishing my hoilday shopping for my family.
It was a different movie, one I was not prepared for other than seeing one preview awhile ago, almost a year ago I'd have to say. The constant setting in the movie makes me feel like it's raining all the time. Though in the movie it's usually sunny or cloudless, a few scenes were shot using a tinted blue lense, hence the feeling of rain coming. Though even when it wasn't shot with that blue tinted lense, I felt the sense of rain the entire way through the movie. I don't know why, it was as if the sky was trying to cry for these 5 repressed girls and their loss of freedom and the fast slipping away of their teenage lives.
The movie had a great potential to develop all 5 of the girls and the 4 boys who followed their lives through the movie, though this never really happened. It focused mainly on two of the girls and the narrator and Lux's boyfriend.
Also, I made a connection between parents of today and the parents 25 years ago shot in this movie. I think the movie tried to tell people that we are no better off in parenting than we were 25 years ago. The problem of parents shutting out what they don't like or don't want to hear is still very present in today's society. I see it every day that I'm home right now. Parents miss suttle cues to hint that something is wrong. The silent cries for help many kids give to their parents often go unanswered because they write it off as a 'phase' in development.
Oh well, it's an ok movie I guess. It's a 6 on a 10 scale.</div>
It was a different movie, one I was not prepared for other than seeing one preview awhile ago, almost a year ago I'd have to say. The constant setting in the movie makes me feel like it's raining all the time. Though in the movie it's usually sunny or cloudless, a few scenes were shot using a tinted blue lense, hence the feeling of rain coming. Though even when it wasn't shot with that blue tinted lense, I felt the sense of rain the entire way through the movie. I don't know why, it was as if the sky was trying to cry for these 5 repressed girls and their loss of freedom and the fast slipping away of their teenage lives.
The movie had a great potential to develop all 5 of the girls and the 4 boys who followed their lives through the movie, though this never really happened. It focused mainly on two of the girls and the narrator and Lux's boyfriend.
Also, I made a connection between parents of today and the parents 25 years ago shot in this movie. I think the movie tried to tell people that we are no better off in parenting than we were 25 years ago. The problem of parents shutting out what they don't like or don't want to hear is still very present in today's society. I see it every day that I'm home right now. Parents miss suttle cues to hint that something is wrong. The silent cries for help many kids give to their parents often go unanswered because they write it off as a 'phase' in development.
Oh well, it's an ok movie I guess. It's a 6 on a 10 scale.</div>
"An old man dies, a young girl lives, fair trade." - Bruce Willis from Sin City.
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