Yeah it was really good; intense, but really amazing... And the acting was just fantastic, especially Evan Rachel Wood - she really brought her skills to this movie.
When I first saw this movie I was shocked at what kids my age can actually get into.It shows the journey of a younge girl getting into sex drugs ect ect and it really is amazing and shocking.The acting is top notch and really brings the movie up..
yeah i know...im a year older then theyre meant to do and i havnt even done half the stuff they have (gotten with a girl, drugs, all that stuff!) but like i said it was gr8!!
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the only problem is that they should have hired actors who were actually 13 years of age. I know the girl who isn't Evan Rachael Wood is 13 or 14, but Evan Rachael Wood is like 15 or 16.
meh..........it was decent I guess. There was no real plot to the movie........characters weren't developed very well. It was basically just a shock film.......a very irresponsible shock film at that.
The two audiences who viewed the film were kids......and parents. It presented a very unrealistic portrayal of 13 year old kids to each. It falsely presents the parents with "this is what your 13 year old is doing or could be doing".......and falsely presents kids with, "this is the way the cool 13 year old kids act....if you want to be cool, this is how".......
completely unnecissary.........made for shock value......nothing realistic about it. Now if the movie had been called Fifteen ......maybe.
I think it was trying to tell what some 13 year olds where like not necissary saying "this is what your kids are doing" but lets face it some kids get into that stuff at a younge age.
I'll keep that in mind when I am done watching the movie, since it seems as if when it comes to movies, I have a tendency to view it different than other people. In more analytical sense.
Alright, I just finished it. You people and your "amazing" claims and generous ratings must have some flawed logic. Of course, nobody bothered stating what made it so special, other than the obvious.
1st gripe. It was very contrived. So, a girl is tired of being out of the loop, so she goes to Hot Topic to buy a vintage tee and some wristbands, and gets noticed in the course of just a couple of days. Hmm mm.
2nd gripe. There was no reluctance on her behalf. It's called "peer pressure" for a reason. She basically non chalantly played "monkey see, monkey do", and didn't chicken out. Ever.
3rd gripe. The sped up "de-evolution". Kind of hitting on what I spoke about in my first gripe, this chick from 0-60 in the course of about 2 weeks? There wasn't much of a timeline on which to base her descent, so it's a guesstimate.
4th gripe. What was with the partiality to these girls and African American boys? I'm not offended, but it seemed rather..out of place.
5th gripe. I understand that the kid is 13, and from a broken home, but was it really necessary to have EVERYTHING happen to her and her family? I mean, [SPOILER - highlight to read]: her mother is a hairdresser, her boyfriend moves in, her friend and her kid stay for a while, they can't pay the bills, the girl becomes a huffing, cutting, pot smoking, scantily clad 7th grader with a violence fetish????
I got the point after learning Holly Hunter was a middle class single mom, which is usually a catalyst for not having a leash on your kids.
6th gripe. Oooh, yeah. There's more. The beginning and ending made no sense, in relation to the timeline. At the beginning of the film, where these freaks are huffing er whatever, the title reads "Four Months Earlier." Now, considering the movie technically ends with Avril Lavigne and her Latino whore gal pal on the bed, at the actual end of the movie, she's told that [SPOILER - highlight to read]: she'll never see Evie again, because they are moving. Now, if the segment where they are throwing blows at each others numbed out faces, are they not seeing each other, as this scene is taking place after their initial seperation? Riddle me that.
Anywho, it tried way too hard to get across the message that kids are growing up faster than normal these days, unfortunately, it's not very indicitive of EVERY teen. It would have been smarter had they not focused on the cliched teenager with one parent and a low income. In the real world, even good parents have bad kids who get in with the wrong crowd.
You want some teen realism, go rent "KIDS". 2/5 from me, on this one. Belongs in movie purgatory with "King Arthur", and "Taking Lives", IMO.
Last edited by Cory Chaos on Jul 12th, 2004 at 04:05 AM
It had some very good acting in it though and the story had its flaws but it showed how some teens COULD react to these sort of things believe me Cinemaddiction its happened before this is 2004 teens are not what they used to be.
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Jul 10th, 2004 04:28 AM
but this thred has been made 
5/5
