Wuchak
Coming-to-death in declining America
Seven youths in a town 40 miles southwest of Chicago try to find meaning, purpose, love and happiness, but without a spiritual compass veer toward crime and tragedy.
"Savage Youth" (2018) is a dark coming-of-age drama with gritty realism and an artsy flair similar to films like Kids, White Rabbit, "Undertow" and Back Roads. The difference is that this one is based on the real-life Nightmare on Hickory Street Murders that took place on January 9, 2013, although the names have been changed (as usual), along with other necessary alterations.
Will Brittain is charismatic in a brooding way as Jason, patterned after the ringleader of the small gang, Joshua Miner, who was 24. The other three key...