Redwarmin This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place

Vashirdfel Simply A Masterpiece

Console best movie i've ever seen.

Crwthod A lot more amusing than I thought it would be.

battle032 This movie overall was very interesting. Before watching it, I knew very little about the Amish customs and their beliefs. The movie starts out showing how the Amish live their lives, which are in very simple, small, close knit communities and they all are very strict on religion. The Amish faith believes that they should let their teenagers be able to choose if they want to follow the Amish faith by letting them go free into the "English" world and see what life is like there. Through that Rite-of-Passage, they would hope that the teenagers will then be able to go and choose if they want to live in that type of lifestyle with technology and innovations, or if they want to come back and live a very simple life with no power or any things that would separate you from the family life. What I personally thought was very interesting is the struggle the kids had to go through when they decided on which faith they wanted to follow. Many wanted to live the English lifestyle and have cars, television, and stuff to do, but the thing they struggled with the most is being shunned from their community if they decided to leave and many couldn't live with the thought that if they were to leave, they would lose all of their friends and family in which they grew up with. Overall very interesting theme and story behind the movie. I thought it was a very interesting documentary.

witney4 I've seen this documentary twice now, at least 9 months apart. I think it needs to be seen a couple of times to really take different views within the film. It does leave me worrying about the pre-programming of young minds before they are fully able to disseminate the whole; I say this because of my upbringing in South Africa when the Apartheid regime was in full swing, and the potential 'programming' this could imprint on young minds. A bit of a departure from the Amish nature of the film, I know, but I could'nt help getting the impression from these young folk of the sense of 'helplessness' of their life choices and futures. That apart, a great film to be viewed a couple of times, and equally a super sound track that would be great as a CD release... so how about it folks?

Yaniv Eidelstein this film is based around a fascinating subject; the amish custom of allowing every boy or girl who turns sixteen to do anything he or she pleases, no holds barred. apparently, the amish believe it is wrong to baptise infants, and that they're supposed to choose the amish way as free-thinking adults.the opening titles explaining this raised my expectations, as did the movie poster: an image of a girl in an amish bonnet, sitting in the back seat of a car, lighting a cigarette. it felt like a stolen moment; like an exciting departure from everything she's been taught. what would teens like this do, give free rein for the first time in their lives? what would it feel like to taste the things that were always off limits?well according to this movie, amish teenagers are just as debauched as anyone in western society; they have no qualms about doing anything at all; nothing seems exciting or new to them. they're just relieved that their nuisance parents are out of the way so that they can finally get on with their partying, driving and drugging.and how do the parents feel about allowing their children to turn their backs on every value they ever taught them? that would be a challenging concept to any parent, let alone one in a supposedly closed, puritanical society. well, we'll never know, as the amish refuse to be filmed or photographed.stripped of all the interesting questions, this remains a slick docu-soap in the mtv "real world" tradition, with no insights to offer; just a peek into the lives of a few amish teens, who may or may not be examples of anything larger than themselves.

utahfilmmaker I thought for sure that a movie about Amish-teenagers-gone-bad would be a series of images of Amish kids dressed in traditional garb drinking, getting high, and sleeping around. I expected it to be a spectacle which would get old fast, and I went into the movie with this bias. It turned out to be one of the best documentaries I've seen in a while. For one thing, the director had the perfect balance of showing a broad social situation (rebellious Amish kids in general) and a more character centered story (the drug addicted Amish youth Faron). You're getting the factual information you need, as well as the emotional punch of what Faron is going through. The director is able to show very clearly the effect of Amish society on these kids without ever forcing a direct connection or being exploitative.