Alicia I love this movie so much

Bereamic Awesome Movie

Salubfoto It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

ChampDavSlim The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

TxMike I found this one on Netflix streaming movies. Frankly the title intrigued me, and after seeing it I am glad I did. It isn't a real clear and linear story, although most of it happens linearly. It is about a girl raised in a traditional Mormon family in Utah, just turning 15, and finding out she is pregnant. Her dad's reaction is to quickly arrange a marriage with a nice young man, but she steals the family truck and runs away to Las Vegas.Julia Garner is the 15-yr-old girl, Rachel, and she is absolutely perfect and believable. She has taken in all the bible stories as she grew up and instantly decided hers was an Immaculate Conception, she believes by listening to a certain song, and she intends to find the "father", the singer of that song.Billy Zane is good as her dad, Paul. Rory Culkin is good as Clyde who she meets in Las Vegas, and who says he will marry her if she can't find the man who sang the song on the blue tape.Most of the story here is indirect and some will not like it for that, but I found it totally absorbing. Who is the father of her baby? In a sense it is left to the viewer to decide but it is not the primary concern of the story.SPOILERS: Reading interviews with Rebecca Thomas, writer-director who herself was raised Mormon, she doesn't really clarify it but hints that it is intended to be a modern day Mary and Joseph story, someone coming forward to accept the pregnant Rachel without judging. Many viewers however believe that several clues in the movie point to her dad, Paul, as being the father, maybe because on her search finding her biological father who had a tryst in the red Mustang with her mother, and Paul knew this was not his own daughter. I myself had concluded Paul was the most likely father but it is indeed left unclear.

jayraskin I was pretty sure I was going to watch only five minutes of this film when I turned it on Netflix late one night before going to sleep. However the film hooked me and I stayed up to watch half of it and caught the second half the next night. Two things caught me, the jumpy Terence Malick-like editing and visual style and the subtle, natural acting of lead Julia Garner.The movie is very relaxed about telling its narrative, preferring to give us community atmosphere and causally letting the narrative fall out. The contrasting atmospheres of a strict Mormon/Amish-like rural religious community and an urban teenage punk-rock community is both strange and funny. Rebecca Thomas shows a lot of artistry and promise as a first time writer-director.I looked up Julia Garner on Google because I had not seen her before and she really gives a breathtaking performance in the lead. She plays a girl raised in such a strict religious background that the Virgin Mary in the Jesus Mythology seems to be her only role model. I was not surprised to find that Bette Davis is her favorite actress. The performance seems modeled on some of Bette Davis' performances, especially, "the Petrified Forrest." (1936).It was also great to see Liam Aiken whom I hadn't seen since "Lemony Snicket" (2004). Apparently, he has only done a few television shows since then. He also gives a wonderfully subtle performance as Julia's brother, "Mr. Will". His character is essentially a child forced to act serious and never smile.It reminds one how cruel a religious upbringing can be.

samkan The first two-thirds of ELECTRIK CHILDREN has a spacey, ethereal beauty. The setting is the awesomely majestic landscape of the Utah high country though soon contrasted with the grit of Las Vegas. Though the children of each venue would seem similarly disparate, they bond remarkably well - so much better than adults would in a similar situation. The review blurb tells you 'Fundamentalist Mormon girl believes she's impregnated by music and travels to Las Vegas to find the father..." suggesting a comedy or calamity. Surprise, such is sincerely introduced and rendered entirely believable. The out-of-element Mormon kids could appear as exploitable prey to the stoner/skateboard punks. Surprise, the two teen cultures treat one another as fellow travelers in the anxious world of growing up. ELECTRIK CHILDREN would have done well to have simply ended with the ambiguity learned by coming-of-age experience. Unfortunately, the film gets too busy in it's last third, introducing characters, plot devises and unnecessary resolution. Notwithstanding, the film's tone and touches offer a sincerity and sweetness sorely lacking in movies today. I very much applaud this indie effort and recommend it without reservation.

dirtphelia Apparently rebellious Mormon teenage girl runs away. She's just found out she's pregnant because she was raped but she can't remember the rape though it was no more than a couple months earlier. She's never even seen a tape recorder but she can identify a vintage Mustang in the middle of the night as it drives through what looks like a quiet middle class residential neighborhood.Rock dudes take her and her brother with them indefinitely. They guess she's pregnant because of no logical reason whatsoever and dude says girl's damaged goods because she's pregnant. One rocker dude falls in love with pregnant girl, apparently, and out of nowhere, and says he'll marry her. Then red Mustang drives up to the church to interrupt wedding, which was arranged 2 seconds earlier. And long-gone dad just what, gives the happy couple his Mustang.What a strangled attempt at creating an epic, tried just too hard guys. This movie seems like an attempt to make an indie/hipster epic but it failed. What a desperate attempt at being oh-so- rebellious. Let's see, uhm, a little too weak.