Thirteen. This movie came out to good reviews earlier this year, a story of a rebellious daughter influenced badly by a girl at schoole etc etc.
Well, watching the DVD for the first time I was hugely disappointed. What I assumed would be the story of a girls slow degradation into becoming a horrible person, turned out to be a very porrly written take on the subject.
Despite being revelled as 'eye opening' and 'truthful', coming from this generation and living through it I see that it is neither of those.
The main character Tracy, starts off as the perfect nice, smart, hardworking teenage girl. Then, in literally five minutes, she sees her brother lusting after girl of ill repute Evie.
Suddenly, she wants to fit in with her... for her brothers affection? I don't know... but it was so sudden. She changes the way she dresses and snaps at her mum.
Then, she shows Evie her clothes and she tells her to phone her. What the hell? That doesn't happen! Ooh, I like your new clothes, be my friend.
Then the girls go stealing, and Tracy joins in to impress them. Them being of course, Evie and her voiceless friend. The film continues like this with the girls doing naughtier and naughtier things such as over the top prescription drugs and punching each other, as ewell as randomly making out and getting down with the horribly stereotyped bad boy black rapper boys from school. Seriously, every boy they flirt with is black and listens to rap, it's ridiculous. We also get to see Holly Hunter naked for no reason.
On the birhgt side, the cinematography is quite good (someones been studying) and the acting is good enough. However, after going from realy nice girl to insane druggy for no reason whatsoever, I lost a lot of hope for this film, and I don't rate it anywhere near what some people did.
5/10,
Well, watching the DVD for the first time I was hugely disappointed. What I assumed would be the story of a girls slow degradation into becoming a horrible person, turned out to be a very porrly written take on the subject.
Despite being revelled as 'eye opening' and 'truthful', coming from this generation and living through it I see that it is neither of those.
The main character Tracy, starts off as the perfect nice, smart, hardworking teenage girl. Then, in literally five minutes, she sees her brother lusting after girl of ill repute Evie.
Suddenly, she wants to fit in with her... for her brothers affection? I don't know... but it was so sudden. She changes the way she dresses and snaps at her mum.
Then, she shows Evie her clothes and she tells her to phone her. What the hell? That doesn't happen! Ooh, I like your new clothes, be my friend.
Then the girls go stealing, and Tracy joins in to impress them. Them being of course, Evie and her voiceless friend. The film continues like this with the girls doing naughtier and naughtier things such as over the top prescription drugs and punching each other, as ewell as randomly making out and getting down with the horribly stereotyped bad boy black rapper boys from school. Seriously, every boy they flirt with is black and listens to rap, it's ridiculous. We also get to see Holly Hunter naked for no reason.
On the birhgt side, the cinematography is quite good (someones been studying) and the acting is good enough. However, after going from realy nice girl to insane druggy for no reason whatsoever, I lost a lot of hope for this film, and I don't rate it anywhere near what some people did.
5/10,
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'Sharpened up for a bit of the old 'ultra violence'...'