I watched A Mid-Summer Nights Rave for my movie review and everything I've been learning about ecstasy, this movie backed up all my information. I've been reading about why kids love it ecstasy and raves so much, and this movie proved my point in 3 different ways, along with showing the scary side of raves, which most kids haven't encountered. Although, it contradicts something that I've learned about raves as well.

Puck, who was gay and was the one who was dealing ecstasy to everyone at the rave was given special yellow glowing ecstasy pills and was told that they were extremely potent. This movie was very pointless and there was no plot. It showed how ecstasy bonds people and makes them want to have a passionate connection. "You have really nice eyes." "Really? You think I have nice eyes?" Yeah, I do, I think they're beautiful." This was the conversation between two straight guys who just sat down next to each other and felt like they could confined in each other. This is the first piece of evidence that proves my statement.

(This is puck from the paragraph above, and those are the glowing yellow ecstasy pills. )


"I love you so much, I love how I love everything and anyone, and I just love to love, don't you just love to love? Do you love me? Because I love you so much!" was said by another girl who just met this guy and this is how she started out the conversation between the two of them. This shows that even if you are total and complete strangers and you're on ecstasy together, you can become instant lovers or best friends. This is the second thing that proves my opinion statement, because I believe ecstasy is insecurity. Diffident teenagers like to be able to find people who like them and have an excuse to make friends, which is why they attend raves. I think that is the biggest addiction to raves.

(The girl on the left was the girl from the paragraph above who was talking about loving everything.)


"Moreeeeee baseeeeeeeee!!!!!" said nick while he was on five ecstasy pills at this rave. At the past raves he attended, his friends told him he was always taking too much ecstasy and getting out of control. He'd built up a tolerance for ecstasy and when he told himself he was only going to take one ecstasy pill at this rave, his body wouldn't let him. He took one and it gave him a body high and he wanted to feel what he'd felt at the past raves when he took 4 or 5 ecstasy pills, so once again he fell into the feel good addiction and took another one. He found a water bottle and was so hot and dehydrated from dancing he chugged it all, little did he know 3 potent ecstasy pills were in it. This is the last and scary piece of evidence that supports what I've learned about raves. Most of the teenagers that attend raves are going there to meet new people and have a good time but a lot of the time they don't know what kind of pills they're taking or who can be trusted. The teenager who took five pills in the movie was rolling so hard, he couldn't even talk and he was leaning against a 10 foot sub screaming, "More baseee!" at the top of his lungs, because he felt as good as a little kid getting a new puppy for Christmas.

(The guy on the left in the yellow shirt, was the guy talked about in the paragraph above.)

From talking to my friends that have gone to a rave, they said there are policemen everywhere patrolling the site. Although they can't do anything to anyone unless they personally see them eating a pill, or if they have suspicion that you have drugs on you and are trying to distribute them for money. If you're just walking around on ecstasy, they can't do anything about it. In A Mid-Summer Nights Rave though, there are no police until the end when the entire rave gets busted. I'm not sure if the difference is because maybe raves back in the day didn't get patrolled like they do now? Or if someone over dosed or got into a fight back when there were no cops around back in the day, and higher authority thought it was necessary to have them there for safety issues.

I personally loved this movie even though it had no plot. I don't think I've ever agreed with a movie that didn't have a plot, but this was an acception. I would define this movie as a comedy, because most of the characters were hysterical and feckless which made the movie what it was. I wouldn't necessarily recommend this movie to just any person, because they'd probably just turn it off after the first thirty minutes. But if you have a good sense of humor and you're interesting in knowing what a rave looks like, this would be an informing movie for you to watch. Considering there was no plot, the message I got out of it was only that ecstasy bonds people. I don't know if that's a good message to portray to kids and teenagers because it might encourage them to try it. Over all it was extremely helpful for me to see this movie, because now I have that to use as a source in my future blogs.

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A Mid-Summer Nights Rave