Maybe it meant more at the time; maybe it means more in its country of origin. However, seeing it for the first time 40yrs later & I'm not understanding the ideas represented. 'Friends Forever', you have K moves to town; H & P that he makes friends with. But H is there for all of about 5mins. Their friendship is crap because K ditches him as soon as bullies make fun of them, calling them gay & various other bs bravado. Then K switches teams & all but ignores H as he leaves... all to befriend one of the bullies, P. Then the group sexually assaults a girl in their class, who of course forgives them... 🙄. After H makes it as a model & disappears from the film, K & P are pal-ing around everywhere, until P kisses his day old boyfriend. Yep, bully leader turns out to be a big ol' gay... cute as that may be, K runs from it... then gets laid by a musician & this is somehow as important to the story as H was because the musician gets at least as much screen time. Then there's an assembly (by the school council, which has only been mentioned once until now) about future jobs & P outs himself. Big scene... everyone pretty much ignores it until K doubles down on the outing & then the principal comes in & dismisses everyone. This somehow makes her the bad guy of the story. K all of sudden feels like he should defend P & they stage an instant protest at the school & pamphlets are thrown everywhere & Principal is terrible & injustice is fought.... and then they do a dance for the end credits. WTF?
I don't know, but if we're gonna be friends forever, shouldn't we at least be friends first? Shouldn't there be a base other than assaulting a girl? And why is it that thise girls always forgive their attackers & go hang out & date them?
Pretty much everything in it is a terrible message to people except that it is okay to be gay... which gets drowned out in the fact that K got laid... 🙄
I don't know, but if we're gonna be friends forever, shouldn't we at least be friends first? Shouldn't there be a base other than assaulting a girl? And why is it that thise girls always forgive their attackers & go hang out & date them?
Pretty much everything in it is a terrible message to people except that it is okay to be gay... which gets drowned out in the fact that K got laid... 🙄