Wow. I didn't expect much before I began watching, but still 'Girl gang' surprises with how terribly inauthentic it is, from the very start. Only a few individuals in the cast have any additional credits to their name, but at that, no one involved demonstrates convincing acting skills. To be fair, it's not necessarily their fault; the material is desperately thin, and Robert C. Dertano's capacity as director seemed to be little more than pointing a camera and feeding his cast lines.
In both how scenes are written and certainly in their realization, one senses not the slightest tick of bother for how the presentation looks from an outside perspective. Was there more than one take at any point? Dertano's editing leaves much to be desired; did he actually do any meaningful work in this regard, save for cutting from one shot to the next?
In another time, with a more capable creative team, this could have been a feature that meaningfully explored degradation and corruption. Alternatively, why, it could have been given a different angle, and become a subversive feminist delight. Instead, 'Girl gang' is effectively an extension of the 1936 propaganda film 'Reefer madness,' and nothing more. Marijuana is depicted as inherently addictive, and capable of producing a fatal overdose. Marijuana is of course an instant gateway to heroin, prostitution, theft, robbery, and more.
I suppose this could be exciting if one has never seen any other movie or TV show before. It could be shocking if one had such prudish, uptight, ill-informed moral sensibilities that even the merest suggestion of controverting societal norms was terribly offensive and alarming. For anyone else, however, this is emphatically not worth the 62 minutes it takes to watch it. There is no genuineness to be found in 'Girl gang,' and no value, either. Under no circumstances could I possibly recommend this to anyone.
In both how scenes are written and certainly in their realization, one senses not the slightest tick of bother for how the presentation looks from an outside perspective. Was there more than one take at any point? Dertano's editing leaves much to be desired; did he actually do any meaningful work in this regard, save for cutting from one shot to the next?
In another time, with a more capable creative team, this could have been a feature that meaningfully explored degradation and corruption. Alternatively, why, it could have been given a different angle, and become a subversive feminist delight. Instead, 'Girl gang' is effectively an extension of the 1936 propaganda film 'Reefer madness,' and nothing more. Marijuana is depicted as inherently addictive, and capable of producing a fatal overdose. Marijuana is of course an instant gateway to heroin, prostitution, theft, robbery, and more.
I suppose this could be exciting if one has never seen any other movie or TV show before. It could be shocking if one had such prudish, uptight, ill-informed moral sensibilities that even the merest suggestion of controverting societal norms was terribly offensive and alarming. For anyone else, however, this is emphatically not worth the 62 minutes it takes to watch it. There is no genuineness to be found in 'Girl gang,' and no value, either. Under no circumstances could I possibly recommend this to anyone.