Excellent documentary about the very early LA hardcore punk scene that almost seems accidental. Upon visiting LA in the summer of '81 the film maker notices that strangely enough Punk doesn't seem to be dead in L.A., but on the contrary, there seems to be a massive teenage movement going on. He decides to make a short documentary about it. As he says (not without irony); "Since everything happens a few years earlier in the US, I can show the parents back home what's in store for them". He was ofcourse witness to the baby steps of the hardcore scene. This is the only documentary of the era that is not sensationalizing or mythologizing. It doesn't talk to any of the scene "stars" but rather follows a few disenfranchised suburban kids and runaways (in Venice beach I think). A rare look into a self destructive and nihilistic scene, where the main motives seem to be restlessness and soul crushing boredom. Perhaps one of the very few documentaries that give this era a human face.

Excelente documental sobre la primera escena del hardcore punk de Los Ángeles que casi parece accidental. Al visitar Los Ángeles en el verano del 81, el cineasta se da cuenta de que, curiosamente, el punk no parece estar muerto en Los Ángeles, sino que, por el contrario, parece haber un movimiento adolescente masivo. Decide hacer un pequeño documental al respecto. Por supuesto, fue testigo de los pequeños pasos de la escena hardcore. Este es el único documental de la época que no es sensacionalista ni mitificante. No habla con ninguna de las "estrellas" de la escena, sino que sigue a algunos niños suburbanos marginados. Una mirada poco común a una escena autodestructiva y nihilista, donde los motivos principales parecen ser la inquietud y el aburrimiento aplastante. Quizás uno de los poquísimos documentales que le dan a esta época un rostro humano.