Lawn Dogs is an Absolutely wonderful movie.

how bout this - they try to control everything - they live in a gated community with security to keep the bad people out - according to these people if you're not rich you are bad - if you are rich and you have stuff you must be good cos it shows you've worked hard (not lied or cheated or stepped on others or been born to it)- yet the bad people are inside the wall not on the outside - the dad is just as quick to forgive sean for groping his daughter as he is to condemn trent

they want to control her friends and the way they are perceived in the community - we must look right and show our best make-over life

yet trent is the one whose family has love and affection and he is the boy who sends money back to his parents and befriends a 'lost' girl

maybe it also says something about americas gun laws - who are they protecting americans from? the bad people? saddam and osama on the otherside of the gate? or are americans all living in a big gated community already? more americans kill americans than terrorists do

i dont know - good movie but cos it makes you think about stuff

Why do so many watch movies expecting to find a message, or what a Director was trying to say, or do, or what point is expected? Can't a movie just rake the viewer through a few days in the lives of a few people without it being analyzed to death or mined for hidden or underlaying meanings? Just kick back and enjoy it.

I remember seeing this show and enoyed how seeing just how we do view some social-climbers, and what we frown upon, and how we were when we were young - rebelious, curious, confused, eager, frightened, rambuncous, and sponging up everything around us too often not udnertanding most of it.

It was just a movie - but a darned good one and a entertaining hour and half.

I agree. I feel that it is very successful and works brilliantly in developing the main relationship between Devon and Trent. When watching the film, I perceive similarities between this film and Tim Burton's masterpiece, Edward Scissorhands, such as the bittersweet ending which defies the usual sickly-sweet Hollywood ending and leaves the two main characters separated forever just as their friendship reaches its peak, as well as the sense of childlike innocence and wonder throughout the film. I found it a heartwarming and engaging film, but was a bit thrown by the rather strange ending, with the growing forest and flooding river. I assume that it is in Devon's imagination or is symbolic, but it hardly matters. Any film which brings Edward Scissorhands to mind is good in my book.