Extended Reading
  • Jasmin 2022-06-27 12:27:24

    Diary of the Edge: Belief in the Future, Fearless Sunshine

    Sometimes I feel that youth without stories is not enough to miss, but watching Jim's youth with stories is different and full of confusion. Jim said that the boys on the street didn't think they would become addicts who couldn't quit; they just wanted to try. But seeing his degeneration step by...

  • Imogene 2022-03-20 09:01:46

    Youth is to toss

    Watching this movie today, in fact, the biggest impression is that when he finally got out of prison, he succeeded in detoxification, and then rejected his good friend's invitation to take drugs.

    The most exciting part of the whole movie, or the most memorable, sunny and inspiring plot is that when...

  • Precious 2021-12-10 08:01:24

    Affected by this film, in 1997, a 14-year-old boy broke into the school prayer meeting with a gun and shot, killing 3 students. The film does not focus on sports, but depicts the degeneration and confusion of street teenagers. Leonardo’s famous work as the protagonist is an excellent interpretation of a young drug addict

  • Evangeline 2022-04-24 07:01:07

    The film is based on the autobiographical novel of writer and musician Jim Carroll, but the time setting is changed from the 1960s to the 1990s. Jim is a bad boy. He and McKee are all students of Father Menotti. They make trouble everywhere, steal, and refuse to accept any discipline. Jim's mother tried to lead him on the right track, and he was even more mischievous. Unexpectedly, a homeless person actually changed his attitude towards life.

The Basketball Diaries quotes

  • Jim: [Walks up to Swifty] Don't worry, Swifty, I won't rat you out.

    [Walks up to Father McNulty]

    Jim: And in the next life, Father, I'm gonna have the paddle!

    [Walks out]

  • Jim: Know this. There's different types of users of junk. You got your rich dilettante square-ass who dabbles now and then and always has enough money to run off to the Riviera if he feels he's fucking around to the danger point. Street junkies hate these pricks, but they're always suckers, and their money makes them tolerable. Then you got your upper-middle-class Westchester preppies... same as the others, basically. What they're good for is opening their mommy and daddy's eyes to this social virus and putting pressure on the government to do something about it. Then there's us street kids. Start fucking around very young, 13 or so. We think we all got it under control and won't get strung out. This rarely works. I'm living proof. But in the end, you just got to see the junk as another 9-to-5 gig. The hours are just a bit more inclined to shadows.