Sentences with phrase «underbelly of adolescent life»

Two trains of thought about Larry Clark's artistic output consistently pervade consideration of his work, which for the past 40 years has almost exclusively examined the debauched underbelly of adolescent life in America.

Skander Halim's script is a real mouthful; at times delightfully bitchy, it touches on a wide swath of hot - button issues and topics, and like, say, Donnie Darko, hearteningly shows the cruel underbelly of adolescent life in a way that mainstream studio films do not, and also the way that teens craftily exploit one another's obliviousness.