Chain Camera & Divine Intervention

Chain Camera is an interesting look at 16 teens in a southern California high school. Doesn't go very deep, and I wish it had. Some of the kids just started to get interesting before they went off to a different kid. Plus, a couple of them were just extended dick jokes. Well, one was a dick joke, another was a fellatio joke. But the ones where we spend more time with the kids are worth the bad parts. Video quality is, of course, craptacular, but really, you have a bunch of teenagers with crappy video cameras. I did want to smack the serious "political druggie" kid an immense amount. Eating food from the street isn't a political stand, it's just stupid. But the former bulimic who wants to turn 18 and become a stripper, the big guy who just wants a girlfriend, the formerly legally blind kid, the football player who was on academic probation, the gay and lesbian kids, and the band majorette were all interest for the little time spent with them. I wanted to see it for being a Kirby Dick film, a more traditional documentary than his This Film Is Not Yet Rated. Well, not really. I mean, I guess he edited the footage, but he did nothing else.

Divine Intervention is a serious WTF? Seriously, this film doesn't make any sense, is boring, and is just stupid. Sorry. I think the balloon part is moronic. And the first half an hour is completely nonsensical. So boring. Such a simple look at the issue. Silly.