re: KIDS.....Since We're Discussing Harmony Korine Movies (Gummo)

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I say that because every movie the man has ever made has been about teenage sex with the youngest looking actors he can find dude is obsessed with teenage sex

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MTV and the creators of Glee (as well as many other shows and movies) are obsessed with the subject as well. Are they all peds?

Put me in the "Larry Clark is most likely a pedo" category.

As for the movie, it was okay. I've grown to appreciate it a little more as an adult, but I still don't think it's a very good movie really.

But the part where Casper (who I hated) was chilling in the bathtub singing his "Everybody loves me cuz I'm fricking Caspuuuuhhhh" song cracked me up. Also, the "I have no legs" dude.

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Put me in the "Larry Clark is most likely a pedo" category.

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I have no idea if he is or isn't. I don't think that assumption can be made about him based on the movie Kids.

Kids is a pretty significant and unfortunate realistic expose on the dangers and consequences of teenage partying, sex, and drugs.

It may hit too close to home, but there is a lot of gritty truth about the movie Kids.

Not defending Larry Clark's other movies. Just defending the movie Kids.

And, yes, I know there are predators in Hollywood. This thread isn't about that.

When talking about Clark and Korine, expect those kinds of comments to arise. They always do.

Perhaps y'all are onto something about Larry Clark. Here is a summary of his most recent movie, Marfa Girl:

Renowned and notorious photographer, artist, and filmmaker, Larry Clark has written and directed his new film, Marfa Girl, which takes place in Marfa, Texas (pop. 1,800).

Marfa exists at a particular cultural nexus with a constant clash between the art community (inspired to come to Marfa by the American sculptor, Donald Judd), the white community and the Mexican American community. On top of that theres a smothering Border Patrol presence despite the fact the Mexican border is 68 miles away. There is an 11pm curfew for teenagers and they still have corporal punishment in the schools. They paddle kids in school from kindergarten through high school.

Navigating all of this and more is Adam, a half-white half-Hispanic teenager thats just trying to figure shite out. His mother, Mary, loves him but is mostly consumed with tending to her collection of birds. His neighbor, Donna, a 23 year old mother to a year old son and girlfriend to a jailed drug dealer, is determined to seduce Adam on his 16th birthday despite his loving relationship to his age-appropriate girlfriend, Inez. To further complicate things for Adam, a nameless promiscuous young woman, sweeps into town as an artist-in-residence at a local art foundation and sets out to give Adam a full sex education.

Tom, a border patrol agent with a lot of emotional baggage, is fixated on Adams mother and Adams girlfriend and Adam too. He longs for the family that he doesnt have.

The film, ultimately, is about peoples internal life and why people become who they become. One character is a New Age spiritual healer. At the end she performs a much needed spiritual cleansing. The film is very Catholic in that the end is a new beginning, all sins are washed away and life goes on as each new day brings us a new start in life.

There were a lot of pedo allegations when Kids first came out. I think Rosario Dawson was only 15 or 16 in it.

I haven't seen this movie in years. I felt very weird after watching it. Especially with Chloë Sevigny getting raped at the end.

That movie was awful.