But if you're looking for something that will move you, shock you and really make you think (and appreciate your own situation) than Sweet Sixteen is the one too see. For a relaxing and enjoyable time, this is not a movie to see. There's points where it seems as though everything will turn out alright, but then something else happens that throws everything off-course. It's moments of levity are welcome, but few. The movie is emotionally devastating nearly all the way though. Along with My Name is Joe (1998) and Sweet Sixteen (2002), Ae Fond Kiss is often regarded as the third part of an unofficial Glasgow trilogy from the director-writer team of Ken Loach and Paul Laverty - though in fact a large slab of their first major film together, Carlas Song (1996), was set in that city and they returned there yet again in 2011 for The Angels Share (expected 2012). Even though I'm pretty close to the age of the main character, I can barely imagine what the nightmarish experiences he endures must be like. Some scenes are very unnerving and hard to watch simply because the hazing and degradation that the fifteen-year-old characters endure is at the hands of people who behave like insecure playground bullies, but are members of a powerful organized crime force. What's particularly disturbing is how the biggest antagonists for Liam, and his friend Pinball are not people their own age, but rather adults. ![]() This is a movie for anyone who thinks that kids who grow up to be drug addicts and drug users have only themselves to blame. Carla's song and AE fond kiss, but Sweet Sixteen. It doesn't get any more nakedly gritty than this. Sounds like a chick flick (nothing wrong if you like that genre it's just that I'm not into that kind of movies in general).
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