15: The Movie (2003)

Good movie but grossly overrated

Fresh and Exciting

This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

This was an amazing film.Many people don't like it, perhaps because they're used to the films that Hollywood keeps spitting out. Fast-paced, over dramatic films (Please note: I'm referring to some, not all) I've seen some terrible films in my lifetime, and 15 is certainly not one of them.The trailer sums it up well. Unbreakable friendships, the "in-your face" visuals, the drama, the comedy.There's not many films that I laugh at this much. It was fun to watch, painful at times, but all in all a lovely, amazingly well done, creative, unique film.While some may find it a disappointment, I wholeheartedly disagree.It was fantastic. You become attached to the characters. Things were's blatantly obvious, there's some fantastic quotes.This is everything I thought it would be, and more.Stunning.

This is a show about the lives of Singaporean boys, mostly from broken families and how they go astray. They end up in gangs, forming some sort of "brotherhood". It's fantastic how well they managed to portray a typical day of a Singaporean gangster, their mischief and their "violent tendencies". It may seem like fiction but I do know of incidents such as these that actually go on in Singapore that most people do not see. Matter of fact, I do know some people who are exactly like the characters you will be seeing in the show. Show starts off with Vynn and Melvin, 2 good friends who had just fallen out with Shaun, who had gone on to join another gang. Show moves on to the life of Shaun and his posse, getting into gang fights, drinking, clubbing, smoking and taking drugs. Shaun and his new friend Erick are pretty much inseparable, but shows no sign of homosexual tendencies. I can account for this from the things they mentioned throughout the show, always speaking about brotherhood and loyalty. They are extremely good and close friends, but are not emotionally involved in a homosexual manner. The show has occasional graphic scenes, like the piercings, and the drug smuggling. Viewers be warned.

This is one of my favourite movies. Can't wait 'til I can buy it. It is a chockingly beautiful movie, the colours and the camera angles and everything is perfect. It is so close, everytime the actors cut their wrists or try to press down a condom full of pills in their throat, it feels like they're doing it to me.Even the violence is beautiful. I don't mean kill bill-violence, but in some way the director makes everything seem so realistic but at the same time extraordinary. I don't know how else to describe it.This is true beauty. See it!

For the uninitiated, 15 tells the story of Singapore's lost youth. The original short film (at a duration of approximately 20 minutes) was excellent and mind blowing. A treat for all the senses. I don't think there was a single person who left the film festival screening unmoved.The feature length version basically continues where the short left off. And what a great feature it would've been had there been an actual story! The movie was wandering and meandering, meaningless at some points, and just plain boring at others. I shall always treasure the short film experience, and have already forgotten the feature length abomination.