Very powerful film.


I just think that this film is powerful because of all the harsh moments that joe had to expierence. A drunken father, a harsh mother that works all day. A brother that likes to sleep in the closet. Even living like joe looks hard enough. Never having prepared meals with he gets home from school he always has to eat the leftovers and maybe he goes digging on the dirty plates from the resturant he works at. Having to steal everyday. To me that looks like a life that would suck major balls. His father coming home always drunk and hitting his mother everytime shes home. I dont know, i think this movie is very powerful. What do you think?

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I remember watching this movie on IFC a while ago when I was 15. I was struck by the movie's relevance to my own life. I had also just read "Catcher in the Rye" and being a teenager with my own troubles it was good to see this kindof art being made about the subject. I think if I watched it today (5 years later), I would probably get bored or something; however, I highly recommend it for people of that age where you just don't know wtf is going on, when the world is new and you face tribulations for the first time.

One scene that I remember was when Joe was looking at the grocery store coupon book. He tears out pictures of steak, greenbeans, and mashed potatoes, then puts the pictures on a plate and with a fork and knife proceeds to eat the paper pictures as if they were real food. *Classic*

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I'm 19 and I first saw this movie when I was 14 and it is still very powerful to me.

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and I'm alot older than that, and I find this film to be quite powerful...I dunno what that other guy means by his post, but it certainly isn't a dull or condescending film.

"The Only True Wisdom consists of knowing...that you know nothing"

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I'm shocked that it doesn't have a higher rating.

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