Afblijven

• Cameo: [Carry Slee] Woman leaving the bus.

• Revealing mistakes: At the end of the msn conversation, there is an URL visible, showing it’s really a local web page instead of a real msn conversation.

The dancing is pretty sad for the most part- the plot is about a younghip hop dancer who aspires for greatness, only to meet a good lookingdancer with lots of Ecstasy. After that happens we get a lot ofstandard issue home drama scenes- the clueless concerned parents, therebellious addict teen, etc.. this is all cookie cutter suburbanviewpoint garbage- it is poorly acted, lacks any real detail or realismto the subject matter and all in all is a complete and utter waste oftime. Go see "Fucking Amal" instead.

2) This movie sucked so much! the plot is predictable unrealistic and sobad. the directing is one big cliché! Brainpower plays some kind ofgoodie2shoes. and the one liners of the actors are to be ashamed aboutlike the comment: nou dat wordt dus een 1 it's just to bad and its sostupid that the girl wakes up when she smells the food. And theburgling scene is stupid. how does he open the door? i just think itsto much problems to be just a bit realistic the movie does bad to thenovels although the novels are quite unrealistic to they do give somekind of inside to the possible troubles of a teenager. i think this isthe worst Dutch movie ever.

3) This is a film noir in my opinion. A drama about young people (16-18)and it reflects the problems they have these day's: either you belongto a certain group or you don't. In some groups you're cool if you goalong using drugs, in others you'll be banned. It's a story of childrenof said ages that fall in love but don't know how to cope with thatfeeling. It's a movie about ambitions and parents that don't listen towell to their adolescence. Parents that keep their children on a leachand be suspicious. Not an easy job anyway. You see the normal everydayproblems of families these days. Furthermore, good acting, hip-hopmusic by Brainpower, good camera works and editing. This is a Dutchfilm and a typical one too: meaning no nonsense, toilet scenes,frustrated mumblings and drugs. Reality detail: when using the internetto chat, you clearly see the popular MSN configurations. Spokenlanguage is Dutch, but on the DVD you can have subtitles in Dutch (forFlamish viewers), English and French. Spoken language to too harsh, noviolence, no sex, no death although the players do their best to getthere. Great film.

4) I saw this film for the first time in October 2006. The whole Dutchfilm business was talking about it: it was the first book of CarrySlee, a very popular Dutch writer who writes mostly for teenagers, ofwhich was been made a film. Shootingstar, the production company of"Afblijven!" had organized a big casting day in March 2006. This isbecause they wanted to look for new talent in our country and give achance to children who wanted to be in a movie and were not member of acasting agency. After three rounds, Sem Veeger, at that time 14 yearsold, was chosen to play Melissa, the girl which it is all about in thestory. Apart from a Youth Theathre Education, Sem had never doneanything with acting in a movie before, so it was kind of special thatthey picked her out of eight hundred other children. Sem has talent.She's got an enormous amount of power on screen, she really sort of"sucks you to her face": something in this girl makes you wanting tolook at her. She's also pretty and has a nice voice. But there wereparts she didn't do well, and it has been shown more than once thatthere are still a lot of things to learn for her. But she's got time ofcourse! I think they picked the right one. Sem is a nice, intelligentgirl who was ABLE to do this. She had fun on set and she grew more andmore sure about herself. Did you know that she broke her calf muscleand had to do a dancing scene? Brave girl . Matthijs van de SandeBakhuyzen is one of the most talented people in this film. He is theson of the director Willem van de Sande Bakhuyzen who died last year.Afterall, this film is very nice. I already saw it six times. Sem issome sort of an example to me, because she's my age and I also want tobe an actress. This film's got a lot of weird texts, that is not themost strong point of it. The acting is not always good, but the storyis really nice.

5) It's an excellent movie: the tension is clearly sensible and there iseven a moral: don't touch any drugs: it ruins your life. You know,these days many youth can be influenced by their friends to take drugsand sometimes it's hard to say no. That's why this film shows us, it'sthe best thing to do! It's not a movie like Eragon or something, soit's not a very spectacularly movie, but it certainly is a good movie!The only problem is, it's spoken in dutch. So people who can'tunderstand dutch won't understand it… Even most Belgians will havesome problems to understand it at the beginning, but in the middle ofthe movie they don't have those problems anymore… So just: it's amovie that has to be seen