Just look at the man-made landscape where these kids live and you start to understand how lost they are. I grew up in a similarly horrible place and the only thing that kept me alive was knowing that I was going to get out of there as soon as I could. There isn't anything remotely charming or worthwhile about this franchise-controlled hellhole. Cigarettes, drugs, and alcohol is about all entertainment they can imagine.
Everyone who has half a brain leaves these terrible places never to return. What does this say about the cities we have created? This place could be anywhere in the USA from California to New York to Florida. Suburbia is all the same and it's all soulless.
The biggest problem these kids have is that they don't know how bad they have it. They think they live at the center of the universe because they don't know any better. They've never been anywhere.
He never really addresses this point in the film, the man-made landscape where so many of us were born. We've made our cities so incredibly unlivable that kids either stay, hate it, and have more kids, or they move to NY or LA or some place less hopeless.
Everyone who has half a brain leaves these terrible places never to return. What does this say about the cities we have created? This place could be anywhere in the USA from California to New York to Florida. Suburbia is all the same and it's all soulless.
The biggest problem these kids have is that they don't know how bad they have it. They think they live at the center of the universe because they don't know any better. They've never been anywhere.
He never really addresses this point in the film, the man-made landscape where so many of us were born. We've made our cities so incredibly unlivable that kids either stay, hate it, and have more kids, or they move to NY or LA or some place less hopeless.