[REL] Put the Camera on Me (2003) [US]
Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2005 1:38 pm
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Put the Camera on Me is a true-life chronicle of a group of kids growing up in the California suburbs in the 1980s. Told through the films by filmmaker Darren Stein between the ages of 7 and 15, the film offers an intimate peek into the power structure within a group of kids captured on film when the parents are away - the jealousy, cruelty, sexuality, innocence, and often perverse imagination seen through the eyes of a child auteur at the dawn of the video generation. These movies became such an integral part to life on the street, that kids would vie for starring roles in the films, as well as the attention and approval of the filmmaker, creating an atmosphere of betrayal and backbiting, with the exhilarating heights and crushing lows of a mini studio system. Tackling sophisticated themes such as homosexuality, the holocaust, nuclear war, child abuse and loneliness, Darren's cinematic imagination was precocious as a child, but somehow still familiar to the childhood experience of us all.
Marvel at the examples of youthful creativity at work: There's the Holocaust movie, with one (Jewish) kid giving a Heil Hitler salute, and dragging his shirtless and gauntly made-up friend across the kitchen floor to the "gas chamber" somewhere off-camera. There's the nuclear war film, complete with the bright flash of the bomb and crazed survivors writhing on the lawn. There's the one about the crossing-dressing kid who converts football players to be "Gay as a Whistle!" Of course, there is plenty of murder and mayhem (with some gross, homemade gory make-up effects), and even some simulated gay sex! Hilarious! Especially when you consider that the ages of those involved was anywhere from about 15 down to 5 or so.
OK - you want to test somebody on how comfortable they are with their adolescence and the embarrassing and maniacal changes therin - then get their immediate reaction from watching this uproarious doc about kids making socially relevant horror flicks in the suburban 80's. More than any movie I has ever seen, the film deals with burdening sexuality and ego in a way that is completely human, never dull, and flushed in the kind of inherent goodness of youth that is discolored by the fear-frenzied adult world where any quirk in youth is accredited to anything from insanity to perversion. Mini-mogul Darren Stien seems to be reaching for a deeper understanding of his triumphs and misgivings as the patriarch of strict kid's world. What he finds in himself and others isn't always pretty - but shows how one can improve and reconcile with age. What does change mean without reflection. I love this movie.
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Like this post to see ed2k links [695.99 MiB]Put the Camera on Me is a true-life chronicle of a group of kids growing up in the California suburbs in the 1980s. Told through the films by filmmaker Darren Stein between the ages of 7 and 15, the film offers an intimate peek into the power structure within a group of kids captured on film when the parents are away - the jealousy, cruelty, sexuality, innocence, and often perverse imagination seen through the eyes of a child auteur at the dawn of the video generation. These movies became such an integral part to life on the street, that kids would vie for starring roles in the films, as well as the attention and approval of the filmmaker, creating an atmosphere of betrayal and backbiting, with the exhilarating heights and crushing lows of a mini studio system. Tackling sophisticated themes such as homosexuality, the holocaust, nuclear war, child abuse and loneliness, Darren's cinematic imagination was precocious as a child, but somehow still familiar to the childhood experience of us all.
Marvel at the examples of youthful creativity at work: There's the Holocaust movie, with one (Jewish) kid giving a Heil Hitler salute, and dragging his shirtless and gauntly made-up friend across the kitchen floor to the "gas chamber" somewhere off-camera. There's the nuclear war film, complete with the bright flash of the bomb and crazed survivors writhing on the lawn. There's the one about the crossing-dressing kid who converts football players to be "Gay as a Whistle!" Of course, there is plenty of murder and mayhem (with some gross, homemade gory make-up effects), and even some simulated gay sex! Hilarious! Especially when you consider that the ages of those involved was anywhere from about 15 down to 5 or so.
OK - you want to test somebody on how comfortable they are with their adolescence and the embarrassing and maniacal changes therin - then get their immediate reaction from watching this uproarious doc about kids making socially relevant horror flicks in the suburban 80's. More than any movie I has ever seen, the film deals with burdening sexuality and ego in a way that is completely human, never dull, and flushed in the kind of inherent goodness of youth that is discolored by the fear-frenzied adult world where any quirk in youth is accredited to anything from insanity to perversion. Mini-mogul Darren Stien seems to be reaching for a deeper understanding of his triumphs and misgivings as the patriarch of strict kid's world. What he finds in himself and others isn't always pretty - but shows how one can improve and reconcile with age. What does change mean without reflection. I love this movie.
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0368186/