Kids

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Summary: ...Reality of generation aka generation X
Review: Shocking...When I first saw the movie it was with our scout group and I thought I will have to leave the theather hall before end...It was discusting and sooo shocking-and I was 13. But when I thought about it...it is real! Shocking but real.At first I tried to convince myself that this is only American style and It can't be going on in our country when I discovered that it is basicly going on around me. Yes in the country of total population 2 million! It was devastating discovery but it really opened my eyes and it is one of my favourite movies since then. I wish more teenagers and their parents would saw it and then discuss all the issues...it is a real eye opener

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Summary: This movie is GREAT
Review: This movie is one of the BEST about the life of the american youth i've got ever seen. It's really f*****g great!!!

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Summary: Polemics and the typical blah blah blah...
Review: Hate to rain on the parade here (then again...no I don't! I'm lovin' it!), but I'm having trouble believing I saw the same film as the rest of these Amazon.com viewers. The only thing worse than the empty, bubbleheaded, "cute" films where "hot" WB stars cuss, screw, and pose for their fans are films like this; films that foist a short-sighted, narrow-minded view on moviegoers. (Mind you, this is coming from a 18-year old h.s. graduate, inches away from college life.)

This is the kind of hollow movie that is peddled to disenfranchised middle-class suburbanites and hypersensitive parent/teacher groups that attempts to make a moral and social statement about the despair and hopelessness of underprivileged youth in major urban centers, which isn't a bad thing by any means. However, the movie throws the most explicit of images at the viewer under the pretense of "realism". Hey, I'm all for shaking up the MPAA; the rating system and censorship standards are a joke. Moreover, I do understand that the truth is not always beautiful. But parading a bunch of soulless, mumblemouthed, drugged-out sex machines in front of the camera is not art by any means, period.

Now before my words are dismissed, allow me to make two points: (1) I'm not a prude; it takes a great deal to offend me (I made it through "The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover" in one piece), and (2) three kids that I went to elementary school with and that I knew personally wound up living lives like the ones in the film. One of them died with a needle in his arm at 15; another is working to his GED...for the third time. Seeing Telly and Casper, I was reminded of the two schoolmates who allowed themselves to be caught up in the whirlwind: tragedy personified. What I don't seem to understand are comments like "Casper Rocks!"; is anybody actually reading and listening to themselves?

One final dissent: a reviewer compared this film to "Saving Private Ryan", which, for all intents and purposes, is an insult and a slap in the face to Steven Spielberg and his magnificent war epic. SPR was a movie with generally noble characters who earned our respect through sacrifice - throwing themselves at the hellish altar that is battle. As desolate and as violent as Washington Square may be, it pales in comparison to Omaha Beach, and the blood that was shed there. Moreover, the characters in SPR were brave and had some semblance of morality in them; the characters of "Kids" were wooden, self-absorbed, and perpetually hopeless. The hopelessness is even more apparent when one takes into account the ending, which provides no answers and reaches no tangible conclusion.

In hindsight, Larry Clark's "Kids" illuminates not the despair of the inner city, but rather the need for films about youth that are thoughtful, wise, and not dependent on the graphic display of hormonal impulses to convey a relevant social message. I'll be waiting until such a movie comes along.

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Summary: good and bad
Review: this movie touches you on so many different levels its amazing. As far as the movie itself,the director,larry clark does a great job.He gives us an intense and crazy look at a day in the life of a teen. The problem with this movie is that not all teens are like the ones depicted in this film.These ones isolate themselves in a world of robbery,sex,drugs,and parties,that by halfway through the movie your nauseated. I myself am 15 years old. I do no some kids like these but not all kids are like this. At the end of the film he leaves you with the sense that theres no hope. Like everything is going to hell and theres not a thing we can do about it. It is extremely depressing and intense. The movie is frank and to the point. It is a very depressing film,but good nonetheless.

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Summary: A Real eye opener and truth to the consequences of "kids"!
Review: When i first sat down and watched this movie i was utterly indistgust and suprised, it really opened my eyes, im 18 male and improud to say that im a virgin and other teens should know that this is a bad road to go on if you are doing this behind the backs of your parents, To the parents, you should get your kids and sit down together and watch this movie, It's a real eye opener and see that this a wrong path to go on having unprotected sex, drugs alchol. all teens should look at this movie. Unproteceted sex can get you killed it's a death warrant and suicide.

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Summary: Real-life look into the life of teens
Review: This is my all-time favorite movie. In some ways I can relate to this movie. I have friends who are just like these "KIDS". This movie takes a true look into a teens life. I recommend this movie to other teens and pre-teens.

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Summary: take care of your own culture
Review: (Sorry but you need to take a view outside of your minimal egocentric parameters. So...) el filme no muestra nada que no se haya visto en infinidad de otros trabajos, pero lo realmente inquietante es la precocidad, ese despertar temprano (quizá "demasiado temprano") a experiencias de profunda intensidad y consecuencias irreversibles. Si algo no me convenció y me pareció inverosímil, es la facilidad de acceso a cuerpos adversarios (es decir del género femenino) borrando con ello, de un plumazo simple, toda la complejidad que la adolescencia masculina entraña en cuanto al contacto con el otro (en rigor "la otra") y las reticencias e incluso crisis de grueso calibre y largo alcance que frustraciones en este campo pueden llegar a provocar. Ante el comentario reiterado en el sentido de que "los actores no actúan" me parece que su performance es verosímil precisamente por ello: el mensaje es que no hay mensaje. Contra el lugar común esgrimido por muchos, creo que el filme es mucho más que un documental sobre el SIDA, es un retrato crudo de ciertos sectores norteamericanos y algunos aspectos de su particular subcultura tribal. Repito: el slogan no debiera dedicarse a alertar al mundo, sino a los EUA y al preocupante riesgo de colapso social que se adivina en un "capital humano" tan precariamente dispuesto a tomar las riendas del futuro de un arrogante imperio en deterioro. Suerte vecinos...

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Summary: Reality. Accept it.
Review: Raw. True to life. Scary. Thats exactly what KIDS was. I'm only 14 and I can tell u right now thats what its really like out there and I live in a small town thats not near the sort of setting in the movie, and it doesn't make difference. This is what its like out there, there are plenty of upper class kids i know that are my age and just like that but are different ppl around their parents. Accept it ppl. It was a good movie because it was accurate.

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Summary: reality cheak
Review: not only was i impressed by the way the script was written but i was impressed by the way it was acted out. all of the charactors did a great job of showing adults what life on the streets is like. i give the director lots of credit in making this movie. being a young teen myself i can relate to alot of things that went on in this movie including the sex drugs and beatings. alot of people come from smalls out in the middle of know where and dont really know how life is like on the streets(especially in chicago). so a very special thanks to all the people that made the movie and to the people who watched it. me and my friends appreciate the wake up call. :-)

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Summary: A gritty shockumentary depicting teen life in the 90's
Review: This movie was recommended to me by a good friend, and after I saw it, I felt like I wanted to vomit for 3 days. Funny enough, this does NOT mean that I didn't like it. In fact, I loved it. I would recommend this movie to anyone who enjoys "true-to-life" scripting and content. However, if you don't want to know what your kids might be doing behind your back, stay as far away from this movie as possible.