Sane adolescents seeing either of these films would understand that it is the violent characters who are supposed to be deranged--in the case of The Basketball Diaries because of drugs.
Sane adolescents seeing either film understand that the violent characters are deranged--in The Basketball Diaries, it's due to drugs.
The teen-age fertility rate has been dropping for several decades--a tribute, no doubt, to contraception--though for most of that time the teen-age out-of-wedlock birth rate was increasing.