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All teen and kid reviews for Monster's Ball

Teen, 16 years old
June 4, 2011
 
Moving drama has the power to change views on life
The entire film revolves around sensitive and real issues in everyday life - racism, families and death sentences being the 3 main themes in this film. Unfortunately, the explicit scenes, and the tragic execution scene play an important role in this film - obviously, the film isn't for anyone who can't handle it, or anyone not mature enough to. But, I definately recommend it. Heath Ledger's short-lived performance in this film is almost too good to describe, and Halle Berry's portrayal of heart-rending Laticia deserves the awards she rightfully picked up in turn. A brilliant film, inside and out, it truly shows how the little things in life can build up to change a person completely; how a person with backwards views to everything can suddenly appreciate and turn their life around. Its just sad it took cataclysmic death for it to happen.

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Teen, 15 years old
March 1, 2012
 
Judging a film based on content is NOT reviewing!!!
So we have two over protective parents and a teen 16 reviewing this film and the teen is more mature then the parents below, how ironic. I fail to see how no one under 21 should watch a simple sex scene and this film is only rated 15 in England, because we are not sensitive about the concept of 2 human beings making love. And why don't you guys do some research before you watch the film? Or here is an idea, LOOK AT THE F*CKING AGE RATING, you morons! And Rachel D, you obviously have no idea what pornography is, it's unsimulated sex with the goal of sexual stimiulation and if you got turned on by this, then you need to get out more. Moronic parents of common sense media, when will you learn that saying what the film contains is NOT reviewing, you are saying that content is what makes and breaks the film, by your logic G rated films are the best and NC-17 rated films are "santanic filth". You haven't even talked about the film, but I'm going to break that trend, personally I find this film mediocre, it has plot holes, an unsatisfing ending, the characters actions really confuse me (bad character writing) and it's not very well paced; Halle Berry is good, but it's not Oscar quality (look into the politics as to why she won). You see kids, that's a review! If you are being bought up to soely judge a film based on it's content, then you are being bought up wrong!

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