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Movie Review: Thirteen
"Thirteen", winner of the 2003 Sundance Film Festival Directing Award, is the story of thirteen year old Tina (Evan Rachel Wood) as she struggles to redefine herself while living the life of a seventh grader. Evie (played by film co-writer, Nikki Reed) represents all that Tina wants: she's popular, she dresses cool and she has the boys dripping off of her.
The rest of the movie has us watching as her mother, Mel (Holly Hunter) fights to understand and reach her daughter, as she falls deeper and deeper into the darkness of her new friend.
Thirteen is a fascinating and frightening view of the struggles of a budding adolescent as she tries to fit in and while finding herself.
Thirteen:
Starring: Evan Rachel Wood, Holly Hunter, Nikki Reed, Jeremy Sisto, Deborah Unger
Directed by: Catherine Hardwicke
4 of 4 Stars
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"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." – C. S. Lewis
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