Heart-wrenching, honest, thought provoking, important! urFRENZ is a movie that NEEDS to be seen by every teenager and parent!
Look, I’m not a movie critic and I understand I have no business trying to critique the direction, acting or writing; but I am most definitely qualified to tell you all the reasons why I loved this film.
Jeff Phillips, writer and director, pulled from his own family’s experience to paint a vivid picture of teen angst, parental confusion, and the growing digital divide between generations.
urFRENZ is the fictional popular social networking site where the drama unfolds. Catharine (played by Lily Holleman) meets a boy online who quickly becomes her whole world. But he is NOT who she thinks he is. A misguided deception leads to an inappropriate relationship, cyber-bullying, sexting, and the ultimate destruction of a young girl.
The movie is so realistic that I found myself relating to several characters. As a former teenager, I found myself re-living my first love as I watched the movie. My parents’ disapproval, my unwillingness to listen, my own deception to maintain a relationship I knew my parents wanted to crush. Was there anything they could have said or done to stop me from seeing a boy that was so clearly a mistake?
As a parent, I found the tension between the mothers and daughters most significant. The movie demonstrates how even a parent’s best intentions can be misunderstood by their teens or misguided in the execution. These mothers love their girls yet the daughters are either unwilling to listen or feel their parent is the enemy. How do we reach our teens? What can we say to them to help them talk to us? How involved is too involved? urFRENZ examines all of this and much more.
urFRENZ is currently screening in select areas. The next screening is Friday, March 26th @ 7:15pm as part of the Method Fest Film Festival.
Regency Agoura Hills 8, Theater 1
29045 Agoura Hills Road
Agoura Hills, CA 91301
Get Tickets HERE:
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/producerevent/103103?prod_id=2315
For future engagements in your area please go to http://www.facebook.com/pages/urFRENZ/196300089035
Online, in school, at the bus-stop, at a grocery store. This all could happen to a young girl these days, and they do more than you might think.
Boys (and girls too) aren’t always knowledgeable about relationships. A boy is usually peer-pressured by his friends to have sex with girls which in turn makes the girls pressured into having sex. Its a vicious cycle. Its pretty much them being curious to something that simple sex-ed video’s just don’t give enough detail.
When i was a young man in high school, i heard all the teasing and pressuring “Dude! You just gotta hit that man! Hit it and quit it!”. But quite frankly, i understood the concept of sexual intercourse. Its something that can lead to pregnancy and STD’s. So why in the heck would i play with something i had no clue on what i was doing!? forget that! One thing that kept me from doing such things was mainly because highschool girls annoyed me. They were immature and yes, only interested in sex. I was personally raised in a house-hold where sex before marriage was a no-no.
So basically the message i am trying to put out for everyone is: Your kids will meet weird guys. Its up to you to prepare them to watch out for certain signs. Teach them basic morals like my family taught me.