I have to say I found this movie disgusting. The most disgusting parts were having to watch teenagers exchange so much fluid in a kiss. It’s just as disgusting as watching old people do it! Anyway, I felt that the movie was a warning to all parents. Someone in the audience said she wasn’t in the slightest worried about her daughter, but consider the character of Darcy – she seemed very sweet and innocent and only spent the night away from home on the pretence of being somewhere else that night! What a sweet girl – I’m glad it was only a film.
Anyone seen High School Musical? (cast pictured above) The characters are all sickly sweet, say please, thank you and you're welcome, and are always polite, the cheerleaders are pretty – and smart – the jocks are sensitive and choose girls based on personality – not looks, the ‘fat’ girl doesn’t get called names and whole school can dance and sing – What kind of teenage world is that? Got to be a Disney Film!
What I’m saying in short, is that films need to find some kind of balance to mirror reality. Not all kids are bad, not all kids are good. In High School Musical, all the kids are well behaved and rich with nice white smiles - it looks too unreal (but is strangely very popular!) and most of the kids in ‘Kids' seemed just too bad, one step away from hell (and the morgue!). Maybe people could just make normal films - then again – would anybody want to watch them?
'Kids' won’t be going in my DVD collection anytime soon, why can’t directors see that we want to watch good old fashioned feel good movies like the link that follows - http://www.filmsite.org/momentsindx.html#100greats
We’re going to the cinema to be entertained – not to be shocked.
