Briony's Blog on "Kids"

Briony's blog put across alot of thoughts I had upon leaving The Lighthouse the day Kids was shown. When the film was being discussed at the beginning, I felt really apprehensive about watching it, not really knowing what to expect. By the end, I had so many thoughts on the subject I really should've written a blog about it when I got home.

I agree with Briony that for teenagers to watch Kids would be a good idea, as it completely deglamourises the entire lifestyle that was being practised. However, for parents to watch a film like this would potentially scare them as they may then believe that all teenagers do this kind of stuff to the extreme as it is depicted in the film.

At parts I was amused. as some of the things that happened reminded me of things my group of friends used to do when we were 15/16 hanging around in Birmingham City Centre every Saturday afternoon.
Dispite that, I found the end of the film really disturbing, but this is probably to do with the fact that the issues raised were all so taboo and to be raised so explicitly in a film was shocking.

I can understand why the film was banned, but ultimately all Kids was doing was portraying the truth of some of the sick things that do go on in society.