In our lecture we watched the film Kids (1995) which I thought was pretty good. It was definitely a shock, however we were warned beforehand that it was banned and unrated, so it was kind of expected. But to some extent, no matter how much you are told about it, you are still a shocked when you watch it. I think that it was shocking because the characters where young teenagers who were doing possibly the worse things you could imagine. Drug taking, under aged drinking, shoplifting, rape, violence - All this happened in the film. Wow! I think the worse thing in this film is the rape which happens at the end. Jenny, the girl, is totally out of it because she has taken drugs and a drunken boy, Casper, takes advantage of her. I think this scene is pretty graphic and explicit to say they're young actors. However, I think that this is a good film to show teenagers because it is kind of set in a documentary way, therefore it adds to the realism. These sort of things do happen in real life and I think that the Director did a good job showing this. The sheer realism of this film shouldn't shock us as we have no reason to be shocked due to this sort of thing happening everyday, everywhere.
It could be said that this film is a wakeup call for parents. Do parents actually know what their teenage kids get up to when they go out with their friends? To be completely honest, I don't think that parents actually know what their children do when they're out - This is quite worrying! In the film, the amount of parental guidance is limited. You see Telly's mother sat at home with a baby, whilst smoking. She obviously doesn't have much control of what her son does and she seems to be a bit of a pushover. All parents should make their children watch this and prepare them for the real world!!
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