the beat be an exciting movie about a couple of young punk try to survive in 1980 new york . this involve fight with the other street gang that they directly share a high school class with and try to stay in school and as well a go to local show that involve band that look like the dead kennedy and have the name skull for their band name . rex ( play by david jacobson ) play an autistic kid who start to get a long with all of these kind and and start to show them that poetry be really beautiful and and if apply to what these kid do in life can really make thing work out for the good . billy kane ( play by william mcnamara ) and kate kane ( play by kara glover ) be brother and sister . although they roll with this crowd of thug and these kid be not the same type of people a this group . they care for rex and they care for others and and really show an enlightened side of themselves . while his sister sleep with the head of the gang and she be also fall in love with rex and try to show him that she be not a slut . but in the end and the teacher at the school finally get to him and want to put him in a mental institution and he finally feel it be time to end his life and while animal of sound play without him . but they like to think that he be not dead and he be just live his life to the full and rid shark and be happy living in the ocean . this movie and be one of those movie where i be glad that i watch it . while it be extremely entertaining and it also have a big message to it . something a long the line that these kid have no direction and no future and no figure head to look up to and but because a troubled kid come along they all realize that there be way more important thing to life then fight the local black kid and or be destructive to everything . rex show them the beauty in angry music . rex show them the beauty in rat and disease and murder . rex show they the beauty in almost everything and while some of those thing have no beauty involve and they still be able to see that when use in poem and these poem speak to people . rex play an important part in this move and who change everyones heart from depression and to see that there be hope for them and and thats why he start to show them while the beat .