Reality TV, acceptable to the multiplex. If The Hills went aback to top academy and developed wit, acumen and a conscience, it ability play something like Nanette Burstein's bash of a doc. Burstein (The Kid Stays in the Picture) did absolute captivation with a scattering of seniors at the alone top academy in Warsaw, Indiana, which we're told is "mostly white, mostly Christian and red accompaniment all the way." It's not all condescending; a abbey assurance announces, "Get an Afterlife." Camera in duke for added than 10 months, Burstein waited patiently for appearance types out of a John Hughes cine to agitate off their clichéd shells - the brawl queen (Megan Krizmanich), the brilliant amateur (Colin Clemens), the bandage beatnik (Jake Tusing), the affected insubordinate (Hannah Bailey). The actuality that they do, sometimes by blessed accident, sometimes by Burstein accouterment the activity (oh, don't acquaint me she doesn't), speaks volumes about our pop culture. Cameras are so abundant in the faces of cellphone-carrying, YouTube-MySpace-Facebook-obsessed teenagers that the kids anon stop lying and just let it be. It's abrupt that American Teen is just as absolute if the kids are appearance it and the affliction seeps in amid the cracks. "All we accept to do is amount out who we are and area we're branch in life," says Hannah, abacus succinctly, "Holy shit!" For pizazz, Burstein plugs in action - acne-plagued Jake sees himself as a hero in his own video game. Secrets appear out about depression, suicide and that all-ages killer, associate pressure. If amateur Mitch Reinholt break from his army to date Hannah, we so wish him not to acquiesce out. It's banal but true: All activity is like top school. These American adolescence absolutely get beneath your skin. You'll be pissed. You'll be perplexed. You'll be absolutely riveted.
From The Archives Issue 289: April 19, 1979
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