Review of Slam

Slam (2016)
1/10
Really?
15 April 2017
Warning: Spoilers
You will know the entire movie when you read the introduction which is: "Samuel is 16 and has a passion for skateboarding. He has big dreams: going to university, move to California, and travel, but things change when he meets Alice, who could be the girl of his life." Now the 'spoiler' is that Alice becomes pregnant from Samuel. The rest you can fill in with cliché moments such as the dilemma to have an abortion or to keep it. Because the movie is about 1.38.00 min long you already know which choice she makes.

Moreover, the acting is OK but some of the casting is unconvincing because for some reason Samuel only has really pretty girlfriends/F*** buddies/???. The latter part of the movie is a fast forward and can also be perceived as unconvincing or unrealistic. Sometimes it comes across as a semi-comedy which is bad because i think that the topic of this movie (teenage pregnancy) is too serious and significant to portray it in a romantic manner.

To conclude, this might be an entertaining movie if you are younger than 18, but if you are currently at Uni or have a job you know that this is a severe oversimplification of reality.
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