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chronovoreI just finished watching Alpha Dog. Good god, what a heart-wrenching film. The parties and the dialog and the tone of the just-post-high-school crowd shown feels very genuine. Apparently it is based on a true story. I'm never letting my kids outside again.
I was a really straightlaced kid, and was never approached about doing drugs, and I tended to run in entirely different circles than the kids who were into them. Growing up in southern California, there was a lot of rumor that there were drugs galore going around, but it was on a different plane than I was aware of. That said, the pace, the attitude and the natural, naive, and stupidity-of-youth way that things spiral out of control feels a lot like some of the bigger (and dumber) confrontations I'd been in around that stage. I feel lucky to have survived, just by not running into anyone more crazy or testosterone poisoned than I was.
I was a really straightlaced kid, and was never approached about doing drugs, and I tended to run in entirely different circles than the kids who were into them. Growing up in southern California, there was a lot of rumor that there were drugs galore going around, but it was on a different plane than I was aware of. That said, the pace, the attitude and the natural, naive, and stupidity-of-youth way that things spiral out of control feels a lot like some of the bigger (and dumber) confrontations I'd been in around that stage. I feel lucky to have survived, just by not running into anyone more crazy or testosterone poisoned than I was.
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