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Lots of people would kill for suburbia...

posted 14 years ago by Bladerunner
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Movies like this get so tiring. Oh woe is me, the depressed, aimless, tortured suburban child - ignored by their mindless, money-grubbing, sycophantic, vapid parents living a pointless existence. Most of the kids are on drugs and vicious, hateful monsters who only care about sex, drugs and hurting people. There are no redeeming characters. Everyone is sick, twisted, and detached from reality. The parents only care about money and success and push their children to follow their hollow existence.

Yawn.

Contrary to Hollywood's belief, suburbia isn't a breeding ground for psychos, drug addicts and wastrels. No, those are the neighborhoods where Hollywood film people live. There are actually decent people living in suburbia. There are actually good kids and good parents and people contributing to society.

"...nothing is left of me, each time I see her..." - Catullus

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[–] Grapeshooter 14 years ago

tc post sucks yawn

[–] Bladerunner 14 years ago

post yawn tc sucks

"...nothing is left of me, each time I see her..." - Catullus

[–] hecantune 14 years ago

There are actually decent people living in suburbia. There are actually good kids and good parents and people contributing to society.

Borrrriiiiing.

If it pays right and it's legal, I'll do it.
.......Well......if it pays right, I'll do it.

[–] Bladerunner 14 years ago

"...how (typically) dismissive..."

"...nothing is left of me, each time I see her..." - Catullus

[–] hecantune 13 years ago

Hehe, forgot about this post. My point was that what you described would make for a very boring movie. It's not Hollywood's job to portray real life with 100% accuracy, unless a film specifically sets out to do so. We already know what real like is like. It's Hollywood's job to provide an escape FROM real life.

Anyway, I have friends who live in these cardboard cut-out neighborhoods out in the middle of nowhere and the teens there are BORED TO DEATH. Imo neighborhoods like this are beyond "suburbia". It's a different dynamic because they tend to be in areas that haven't been settled for very long so there isn't much to do.

Back off! ... Way off!

[–] MrBrocktoon 14 years ago

"Nothing happens in the world? Are you out of your f#cking mind? People are murdered every day. There's genocide, war, corruption. Every f#cking day, somewhere in the world, somebody sacrifices his life to save someone else. Every f#cking day, someone, somewhere takes a conscious decision to destroy someone else. People find love, people lose it. For Christ's sake, a child watches her mother beaten to death on the steps of a church. Someone goes hungry. Somebody else betrays his best friend for a woman. If you can't find that stuff in life, then you, my friend, don't know crap about life! And why the F#CK are you wasting my two precious hours with your movie? I don't have any use for it! I don't have any bloody use for it! " ~ Robert McKee

[–] Bladerunner 14 years ago

I'm not sure if you're agreeing with me, or disagreeing, but I tend to agree with the last statement of your quote. I don't really have time for movies that purposely grind one's face in human suffering, unless it says something important. For example, the film Hotel Rwanda. I thought the film The Killer Inside Me was horrific, but brilliant. However, I hated The Joy Luck Club which seemed to revel in portraying humans suffering and wallowing in misery.

Am I saying that no bad things happen in suburbia? No, I'm not. I'm not denying, in any way, that bad things happen in suburbia. Murder, abuse, incest, theft, bullying, you name it. However, there are also a lot of good people too, good kids that are friendly and decent people. All you ever see about suburbia in Hollywood movies are kids that a dopers, or pent up psychos or sexual perverts, and other twisted deviants. What I'm saying is that there are a lot of good people there, good kids. It isn't the freakish, horrific breeding ground for psychos that Hollywood films make it out to be.

"...nothing is left of me, each time I see her..." - Catullus

[–] ljhughesy 14 years ago

"However, there are also a lot of good people too, good kids that are friendly and decent people." ~ Bladerunner•

Please, please, tell me where this place exists, because all I'm seeing nowadays is kids as young as twelve on the streets. Every day, I see at least three people that are high, who walk into my work. I know girls who are eighteen, 5'5" and weigh 50kg, and are dieting to get thinner.

And this film also deals with being different in a world where you are unaccepted, and the problems that come with that. Notice how Dean's only friend was the school's drug dealer? Notice how no one felt sorry for him when Billy was being an arseholle?

You may live in a perfect suburbia, but your kind of sburbia is dying out, and fast. I've moved around a lot, seen a lot of areas, and they've all been the same. The richer suburbs are just the ones that are better at hiding their problems, because they can afford the better drugs that are prescribed by expensive private doctors.

As for the film, three thumbs up, especially for Jamie Bell.

[–] Promontorium 11 years ago

Wow you are stupid. And a liar.

[–] chilone 9 years ago

Late in the game but what, pray tell is acceptable subject matter for movies since this isn't?

I don't love her.. She kicked me in the face!!

[–] InsecureNeuroticControlFreak 9 years ago

Poor, urban neighborhoods can have good kids and good parents. Rich suburban neighborhoods can have good kids and good parents.

Both can have *beep* kids and *beep* parents. To think that a teenager should be grateful for everything they have when even their parents are too busy to CARE for them or give a simple damn about their well-being all because they were raised in upper-class suburbia is BS. Regardless of their family's riches, every teenager needs loving, kind, considerate guardians. Period.

I'm just sick of the "oh woe is me. I'm a sad, rich teenager. Feel bad for me.... Wah wah wah. I have everything but still complain" mindset that people get about teenagers. A rich teenager is still a teenager. A rich teenager with bad parents is still a teenager with bad parents. A lot of money isn't going to change that.

I don't feel enough for you to cry.

Oh well.

[–] CinemaDemon989 (1286) 6 years ago

I think you're missing the point. It shows how even life in suburbia isn't perfect or problem free. I mean, sure, it may not be as bad as living in some other places. But even still...it has it's demons.