Collectively, our response to the film was mixed. We decided that Kids is about "disease", "neglect", "university parties, not parties 15-year-olds could have", and "stuff that doesn't happen in this country". It was "blunt", "harsh", "too American", "cruel", "upsetting", "fake", "boring", and "sick".
The main criticism from the young people was that Kids has no story but I am not sure that I agree with this: a man is killed, and we discover that at least two of the protagonists are HIV positive. The kids break into a pool, have a house party, have several sexual encounters, get stoned, drunk and experience rape.
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