mid90s
“you literally take the hardest hits out of anybody i’d ever seen in my life. you know you don't have to do that, right?”
mid90s is an incredibly tense coming of age story that stands out in such a crowded genre. it tackles the impressionability of youth how how they are shaped by those around them. 962
<PERSON> is constantly trying to impress his peers because he thought they were cool. he latches on to them because they offer an escape from an abusive and ‘smothering’ household.
this is a film that really shook me in a good way. it tackles so many themes beyond coming of age such as abuse, both physical and substance, but also masculinity in the hiphop scene of the mid 1990s. <PERSON> offers such a sincere and incredible performance, alongside <PERSON> as <PERSON>. 883