Maybe I've posted about this movie before...if so, it was quite awhile ago. And I can't remember.
I don't know what made me think of this movie the other day. Chris and I watched this movie about two years ago. His coworker recommended that we watch it, and let us borrow it. I had never heard of it, and didn't know what to expect.
This movie really proved to me just how sheltered I was growing up. How naive I still am today about how the world really works.
It's about young teenagers...sex...drugs...rape...HIV...a lot of the movie really made me want to throw up. I was just blown away by it. Disgusted. DISGUSTED.
But, truly, I think it's a good movie for teenagers to see. So they are aware of things that can happen. So they're aware of how the world is. Because I had no idea. And I'm so glad that I had no idea, that I hadn't experienced any of these things.
One boy (and I mean, these kids are 14 tops)...was all about having sex with virgins only. He sought them out, and charmed them, and got them to give it up. And then he just moved on to the next virgin. In another scene, you see a young girl going in to support her friend who is getting an HIV test, and it turns out she has HIV instead. Because she slept with the boy who only slept with virgins. So he's infecting all of these poor girls. So she goes on a quest to find him so she can tell him that he has HIV and that he's spreading it, and by the end of the movie she still hasn't found him, and she's ended up at a party looking for him. She gets slipped a drug in her drink, and ends up passing out on the couch, where another boy rapes her. While she's passed out. He was someone she considered a friend. It was the most disgusting scene.
Totally makes me want to puke. It should tell you how much this movie revolted me, as it still haunts me years after I've seen it.
How is the world like that???????????
2 comments:
I don't remember you talking about this movie before. WOW, it sounds very powerful and an eye opening for Us that were sheltered. I thank my lucky stars that I was never in any of these situations! Never dealt with any of this. YES, I know there were drugs in my small school. I'm not stupid. But I was NEVER ONCE approached with them. I pray that my children aren't faced with everything you talked about in this movie either!
I never dealt with any of these things either, so I suppose I'm sheltered as well. Of course, I'm an old goat anyway, LOL!
Things like that really scare me for Ashleigh, and little Peanut. It's a real scary reminder that no matter how hard you try to raise your children right, you can never protect them from all the horrible evil in the world.
I guess I'll just have to keep Ashleigh under lock and key until I arrange her marriage!
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