The Kids Film Analysis

The movie that I chose is called Kids and came out back in 1995 centering in on one day with a group of sexually active teenagers that live in New York City. This movie exposes sex and substance abuse during the height of the AIDS epidemic in the mid-1990s. The main character Telly starts off with a young girl making out in bed with no adults around, persuading this young girl, who is a virgin to have sex with him. After Telly has persuaded the young girl to have sex he tells his friend Casper, who has been waiting outside for him for over two hours about all his sexual experiences, smelling Telly’s fingers to get the smell of the young girl he just had sex with and expressing how he only wants to have sex with virgins. Telly’s main goal is

Jenny is a young adolescent whose first appearance is with the group of girls who talk about their sexual experience. Jenny seems to be not as outspoken as the other girls and less experienced when talking about sex. When Jenny does begin to talk about her one experience with Telly you see the hurt and sadness because of her expressing how he had sex with her and never talked to her again when he took her virginity. Even during this time when the other girls are talking about the different boys they've had sex with, the different things they've done with them, and the things they tried jenny has not discussed anything compared to the rest of these girls because her experience lacks that. When Jenny decides to go to the clinic with Ruby she's not expecting to hear any news because she's only had sex with one other person compared to her friend Ruby. When Ruby and Jenny are talking about their results with the adults and Jenny has been told that she tested positive for HIV Jenny's face is filled with such shock because all she can say is I've only had sex with one other person, but even only having sex with that one other person that one time was not protected. Jenny now goes on a mission to find Telly to let him know that he has infected her with the HIV virus. The journey that Jenny goes through during the rest of this movie brings her too many different destinations on the search for Telly. Jenny stops

As a therapist, I would diagnose Jenny with a major depressive disorder where she has shown a depressed mood for most of the day, a feeling of worthlessness and guilt, and symptoms that have caused a significant distress and impairment (Whitbourne, 2017). Due to Jenny's depressive disorder she has also secondarily resulted in substance-related use with a sedative. In the article Depression and social functioning among HIV-infected and uninfected persons in South Africa it is said that, “Depression and other mental health issues are common co-morbidities in human immunodeficiency virus infection/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS). There has been a comparison with depression in physical health, mental Health, and problem alcohol use and tobacco use in a sample of HIV-infected and uninfected respondents. It has been seen that depression was higher in HIV-positive individuals and they were significantly more depressed than individuals that are HIV negative. In the article Sex and Secrecy: How HIV status disclosure effect safe sex among HIV-positive adolescents it discusses how individuals that are HIV-positive engage in unsafe sex and are at a higher risk for transmitting or acquiring HIV. During this research sexual experiences were measured through a series of