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Manson Family eats American Pie, 14 August 2003
Author: karmacoupe from New York, Toronto

To me, this is in a small group of movies that really distured me, but in a cinemagraphic way -- like Midnight Express and Rosemary's Baby.

Lead actress Rachel Miner is positively eerie! i'd love to know more about the real case this was based on, but as a dramatization of what happens when ruthless bullying in a group of amoral teens goes to the extreme, i think this is fabulously real for the 21st century.

The nudity and gratuitousness of sex is indicative of the characters & citizenry depicted. if you have a problem with this film, you have a problem with the high school on your corner.

Granted it's a 'movie' of what goes wrong in the extreme, but the bullying, clickishness and peer pressure sure rings true in the high school world i knew and the one i see today.

if you're sensitive and/or young i would avoid this. i couldn't watch movies like this (Natural Born Killers, Pulp Fiction) before -- i knew beforehand they were too violent. this is in that graphic league, tho of course not in other qualities.

if you're okay with watching evil, almost Manson-like violence, then check this out for the culture that birthed Columbine. if you have trouble sleeping at night, avoid this till symptoms subside.

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