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Remember When We Were All Absolutely Shook by the Movie ‘Thirteen’?
Evan Rachel Wood and Nikki Reed’s film 'Thirteen' is a hard watch even as an adult, but it was downright shocking as a teenager
Not only does Tracy scream at her mother, get her tongue pierced and miss curfew, she also self-harms using a pair of scissors, gives a blow job and gets so high from inhalants that she can’t feel Evie punching her in the face at her own request. The Los Angeles Times ’ Manohla Dargis called Thirteen an “arty exploitation flick” in a 2003 review, and said “only audiences that have been locked inside a bomb shelter for the last 50 years will be shocked by what happens” in the film. The Washington Post ’s Laura Sessions Stepp warned that Thirteen would make parents with young daughters “want to run home, hold [them] tightly for a few minutes and then lock [them] up while you struggle with all the questions the film raises but doesn’t answer.”
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