Two thumbs dirty
So i watched this movie and I dont really even know what to say. I mean you leave it just feeling dirty... (SPOILER WARNING... not that it really matters) ... in summary its about a 16 yr old kid who is addicted to having sex with virgin girls... and like 12-13 yr old girls at that... one girl that he has sex with finds out she has HIV and is trying to tell him. A lot of bad things happen in the middle (they beat up and you are led to beleive beat to death a guy who didnt deserve anything, they show like 10 yr old kids smoking pot, they show a lot of very graphic stuff) ... in the end the girl trying to tell the main character never gets to, instead she gets drugged and raped by his best friend while the main character has sex with two virgins in the same day... assumably, she never gets to tell him... so there is no closure, no sense of resolution no matter how crappy it may be... the way it ended just made you feel like life sucks and there is nothing you can do about it... i can go all night talking about existentialism and the western mindset of retribution... but i think anyone who reads this understands those enough to apply them to this movie... life sucks and there is nothing you can do about it... and the western world has this thing for beleiving that in the end the bad guy will get punished and the good guy (or girl here) will be rewarded... unfortunately that doesnt happen... and you just feel odd about it...
Many think this movie is too graphic... however it is real... i remember thinking a lot of the same things that those kids did... i just had the control to stay away from them... so its not like its senseless... its reality... raw... and some people cant handle that... however the movie also served no purpose to me... i guess at the time it was like a "wake up call" to parents or something... but i think if i recognize that its reality then i dont need that wake up call... so for me it just made me feel dirty... so i didnt like it too much... if anything it just reminded me to be thankful to my parents and to whoever else cared enough to guide me in some way... cuz i like my life... and im glad im in a better position than those kids...
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i still haven't seen that movie...i remember back when i was in high school, my mom saw it and i heard about it a lot...she had the same reaction you did, so i've been avoiding seeing it...heh
My sister went to rent that from Video Droid last year and the guy at the counter said to her, "I would sleep better if you didn't rent that." So she got something else.