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four stars****

If you miss this movie, you chance letting society down. You miss the opportunity to find out what’s really going on in the minds of teenagers and you’ll maybe not know how to stop the fall in society’s values before it’s too late.

If you’re in charge of a teenager, or you’re a parent or guardian of one, or likely to become one, then you must go and see this movie. It will shock you to your bones. It’ll show you the less favorable options available for young people and the routes they might take. After see this movie, hopefully less will be devoted to ruining their lives and getting in with the wrong ‘gang’ for the wrong reason. Even one less life lost or harmed, is a result.

This movie shows the misfortune of teenage pregnancy, incest, grievous bodily assault, abuse within family, the down side of selling drugs and drug use, police brutality (although many will say the person being beaten deserved it) and most importantly, children having to grow up too soon.

I’m told that the school head teacher’s attitude to expel pregnant teenagers was an accurate portrayal, locating the movie in Barbados. I can only hope that all head teachers will help and guide these young ladies, accepting their situation and making them part of the school life, not to make their lives worse at a time of eventual new joy.

The teacher needs to learn that teenagers will have sex. You need to teach and prepare young people how to have sex safely, not to stick your ostrich head in the sand and hope it doesn’t happen. It does!

Writer Marcia Weekes completed an excellent task in bringing together the many difficult aspects of being a teenager in the world these days. Critics will say she involved too many domestic problems, but the way she has crafted the screenplay makes you just sit back in wonderment.

The laughter heard in the theatre showed people’s embarrassment at the many aspects of family life which portrays the view of better to laugh at a situation that cry when in public. Many times you just wanted to shout out ‘don’t do it, don’t go there’ in the hope the actors would change their actions.

The movie provides excellent acting from leading ladies Claudette Wadman and Sharon Griffith as two mothers who have different ways of bringing up their children. Sophia Thomas, who plays the pregnant teenager who meets her father for the first time before suffering beyond belief at his very own hands, portrays the innocence of the child taken to womanhood in minutes, rather than years.

Andrew Thornhill as the young father to be and Leslie Cumberpatch provide excellent support roles.
Mark Daniel, playing the monster father, might need to change his appearance because of the incredible degenerate lifestyle he leads in the movie; he makes himself so hated in the film, that fans should remember, when they meet him out, that he was acting!

Trailer;: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78wcM9lRWI4

If this movie isn’t listed for showing in your local theatre, then it’s time to go and request it. I understand that some schools are sending all their thirteen to sixteen year olds to see it. Sensible schools, those.

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