Kids

"Don't you know tricks are for kids?"

Repulsive, depressing, exploitive….this is what critics have called this unpleasant movie. So why do I sorta want parents and older teenage girls to see it?

It is hard to figure exactly what the producer of this movie intended. It is quite well done...to the point of having a hard time remembering the kids are acting (we darn well hope). The kids are depraved, crude, cruel, and lost. Unfortunately, the movie rings fairly true to life for a certain segment of our adolescent society. The main creep of the movie is a young boy named Telly. I am guessing he is fifteen. His bent is deflowering virgins. This is what gives this total loser some status in his world. He has found the lines that work to get the girl to succumb and when he finally engages in intercourse, he pays little attention to the angst of the girl he is banging, and he IS banging, for that is his intention; to brutalize the virgin girl he has just duped into believing he will tenderly introduce her to lovemaking. When he is finished, he goes out to brag about his conquest to his buddies. His choice of victims becomes younger and more frequent as the movie progresses.

The backdrop to this piece of crap's crimes is a land of violence, drugs, drinking, and disrespect. The older "men" tutor the younger youth, boys about the age of the lost boys of Wendy in a much more innocent Never-Never land. THIS is the land of NO childhood to speak of; boys who experience the "pleasures" of adulthood by nine years old and are burnt out and bitter by the age of twelve. The girls in this movie do not fare well themselves. They submit to multiple sexual encounters in their early teens and view themselves as their users view them: damaged and unclean goods.

Society should pay attention to the budding psychopathology of a portion of its young people and this movie makes it abundantly clear. What is NOT clear is why this movie is so appalling to folks and yet the same behavior in real life is overlooked, minimized, or ignored. KIDS should be a wake up call to parents who are allowing their children to grow up unloved and uncontrolled and a wake up call to a society that looks the other way.

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Pat Brown
The Sexual Homicide Exchange