KIDS

"Larry Clark's controversial film about New York City adolescents walking the AIDS tightrope is also an unblinking look at the dehumanizing rituals of growing up. But it really doesn't add up to more than the sum of its various shocks--virgin busting, skinny-dipping, male callousness--overlayed with middle-class disapproval. Clark is hectoring us for cutting kids loose at a terrible time in modern American history, but so are a lot of other people, who also offer alternatives and ideas. The film does nothing to push us toward new thoughts, new solutions, new dreams. It is more like a window onto our worst fantasies about what our children are doing out there on the streets." --Tom Keogh

This movie is not funny. In fact it disgusted me. It made my tummy uneasy, and as my mother and I watched it together in our cozy little living room, I had to tell her on several occasions to "knock it off with the noises or I'll turn the movie off." She could just barely handle the scenes of 7-year old boys high off of pot, or depictions of rape and teenage violence. But who could blame her?

The director, Larry Clark, is known for his grotesque and brutally honest direction in his films, but Clark did not create this film out of thin air. Instead a young 18-year old boy named Harmony Korine wrote and sent in the script for "Kids". What demented 18-year old fuck could have created this piece of gut-wrenching grossness!?

This boy.



Not what I expected.



What a "pleasantly odd" fellow.