In the MTV age, a "real-life documentary" about teen experience in high school is not extraordinary. In fact, some of the cinema veritas often is the product of amateur filmmakers living the experience themselves, i.e., high school students via such media sources as You Tube. So why the need for American Teen, a documentary on five students experiencing senior year at Warsaw High in Indiana? Well, after seeing the movie you come to realize that the other attempts at chronicling this angst-ridden state of life have been hopelessly superficial. The beauty of what filmmaker Nanette Burstein does is she provides an unfiltered view of the lives of five students warts, acne and all. She lets them tell their own stories and as a result the drama they provide is both simultaneously raw and sincere. And at the end of the film you form an unavoidable bond with these characters and a hope that they will find the next phase of their life filled with more happiness than drama.
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