Review of Tell Your Children (1938) by Christian C — 19 Jul 2010

So im writing this review for two reasons, 1, Legalization of Marihuana is such a big thing these days that we dont know whats the truth about the actual drug, and it would be interesting to see what the movie buff comunity thinks about this issue. and 2, my brother got caught with possession today,in reality he was an acsesorie, so I felt like reviewing it in honor of his stupidity! Albert my brother, I tip my stupid cap off to you!

So Reefer Madness is a 1937 propaganda/exploitation film that basically says that if your a High School kid, 98% of the time some random guy comes up to you and says "you want drugs?"(then if thats true, that means im in the 2%). so the story goes that Mae Coleman(Thelma white) and Jack Perry(Carelton Young) sell weed for a living, Mae always sells her stash to people her age, but Jack always sells his to young teenagers. Ralph Wiley(David O'Brien) is an ex-college student who is Phsycologically insane, helps sell the Weed(but he is also an addict), as well Blanche(Lillian Miles) helps Jack sell the Drugs. Bill Harper(Keeneth Craig) and Jimmy Lane(Warren McCollum) are invited into Mae & Jack's apartment. Once there Jack runs out of Reefer and asks Jimmy to take Jack to where he gets his stash, after that Jimmy tries a Joint(if you dont know what a Joint is, a Joint is a Marijuana style cigarette) and starts driving away so fast he runs over someone, Bill later starts an affair with Blanche, Jimmy's sister & Bills girlfriend goes to Mae's house(in this scene you wonder to yourself, how the hell did she know they were there!?) and tries a joint, thinking is a cigarrete, after that, all hell breaks loose.

This is supposbly true events onto what happens if you ever smoke pot, if so, why arent there news stories like these? "A local Man on Marijuana massacred 30 poeple in a local McDonalds, the Manager said that the man had the munchies for 200 Big Macs, Police found him thorugh traces of Pineapple Express.", the answer is this, Marijuana doesnt kill people and that is the reality, try finding a murder unde the influence of Pot or someone dying of OD with Marijuana and you will not find anything. A good example of using pot responsibly is Medical Marijuana, people under so much pain that they use it to relax, and that is something that the film doesnt realize, why? because they only care about making sure that the plant is dead.

Im not going to spare any of your time on Performances, because you will not find any. but I want to focus on its distribution, this film was distributed by a church orginization under the name "Tell Your Children", it was to make sure that kids saw these films and to make sure that they shited there pants after they saw these films, unfourtuantley it never worked, until 1970 where people who were under Marijuana saw the film and thought it was hilarious(see the Irony?), after that it was a cult classic, and here we are today, and people are still smoking pot and that is how you realize that this film has failed its purpose(unless its purpose was to make stoners laugh, than it succeded).

In the end, Parents need to make sure that they teach the problems of drugs to their kids, rather than making schools or films teach that subject, because its not their problem until someone is caught doing the drug. but in reality Marihuana isnt gonna make kids into psycho killers.

Just to let you know, I dont smoke Marijhuana.

Overall, this movie doesnt get the real facts straight about the usage of Marihuana, even for a cult classic, it still fails.

I give it 1/5 stars.

Question of the week: do you think that Marijhuana should be legalized, and if so do you think that there should be stronger laws for children who use the drug illegally?

Personally I say yes it should be legalized but we need stronger laws just to support it, and weekly check ups in schools to see if someone is high.