Thursday, January 8, 2015

We Are The Best!

Sweden

Three disaffected 12 year old girls decide to form a punk band in 1982, even though they can't play any instruments and everyone tells them that at that point punk is dead. And here I thought it had never lived in the first place.

The lead girl is an androgyne, or perhaps pre-pubescent whilst the other two are social rejects. Together they behave as if no attempt had ever been made to socialize them: they are impulsive, rude, entirely self-centered, cruel...seemingly unaware that actions have consequences. They appear to be entirely natural in front of the camera which isn't necessarily a good thing.

The film would have been more effective if the kids hadn't been so annoying. Punkettes indeed...

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