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Summary: I was truly shocked
Review: me and a group of friends (all in our teens), thought this was going to be another voilent and sexually explicit video. What we got was a deep message of how meesed up teenagers really are. After the final dialauge, we all sat in silence, realizing how uncool sex and drugs really are. This movie is a powerful tool in helping kids see reality.
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Summary: I think it is a wakeup call for every teen, and parent.
Review: This is a movie that i will keep, and watch with my children in their teen years, or maby preteen years.This is a movie that every parent, and teenager must see.
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Summary: This movie is incredibly real and disturbing.
Review: No one is trying to pull the wool over your eyes with Kids. It is as real as a movie gets, focusing on the frightening world that big city teens live in today.
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Summary: Real life movie very educational!
Review: Good flick for teens
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Summary: IT COULD HAVE HAD MORE GRAPHIC SCENES AT THE START
Review: ALL IN ALL I WOULD RECOMMEND PARENT'S TO SIT DOWN WITH THEIR KIDS AND WATCH THE WHOLE THING, IN ORDER TO GET THE MESSAGE ACROSS TO THE KIDS ABOUT DRUGS, AND SEX
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Summary: Uncompromising
Review: First off, "Kids" is a phenomenal movie in absolutely every respect. Harmony Korine's script is amazing (I can already tell I am going to run out of superlatives.) It blows me away that someone so young could write something so self-assured, so masterful. The performances are impossibly real. Add to this Clark's voyeuristic, documentary style and the result is some of the most uncompromising naturalism in cinematic history. Kids is the kind of movie that makes mainstream filmmakers blanch. It is also the kind of movie that makes mainstream film goers confused and angry. Naturalism has never been a particularly popular style of theatre. If a viewer doesn't have an appreciation for the style, he/she may think the film lacking. Naturalism depicts life objectively, imposing no value judgements. The question of value is left up to the observer, the viewer. It does not shy away from ugliness or uncomfortable situations. Naturalism is often seen as nihilistic, but that is the challenge that is presents. Being truer to life than other dramatic forms, it's meaning is more obscured. Many have interpreted "Kids" to be a "wake up call" concerning the growing menace AIDS poses to young people (I think it was even printed on the box cover.) That is one interpretation. I see a much more sinister theme at the heart of "Kids." For me, AIDS just served as a metaphor for a diseased culture. These kids are sick mentally and emotionally. To me, these hopeless characters represent an entire generation of lost youth. Their general apathy and animalistic hedonism is a perfectly understandable response to the empty, violent, plastic, consumer/commercial culture that raised them. Yes, they are contracting AIDS; but what about those that escape it? What are they going to do with their lives? Of course, this is just my interpretation. The film itself remains objective and impartial. In fact, I think Korine would disagree with me and that is why I love this movie so much. Watch this if you like powerful, unflinching films that challenge assumptions and make lasting impressions.
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Summary: A refreshing dose of reality
Review: With the arguable exception of occasional movies such as "Thirteen," virtually all teen-oriented films are laughably sanitized compared to the shocking realism of "Kids." Although technically a work of fiction, "Kids" has the look and feel of an in-your-face documentary. As such, it shows just how animalistic and self-destructive kids can (and often do) become in the absence of good parenting. Though some might consider that last statement a bit "preachy," it is not intended to be. It is simply an observation of cause-and-effect. Why else would a kid like Telly (played brilliantly by Leo Fitzpatrick) be so obsessed with deflowering 13-year-old virgins? Why else would the lives of the other kids portrayed in the film be so deeply entrenched in the non-stop pursuit of heartless sex and reckless drug use? And why, through it all, would they be so completely indifferent and oblivious to the consequences of their actions? These are questions that "Kids" raises but thankfully does not attempt to answer. That is for the viewers themselves to do, hopefully with the realization that this movie is not nearly the exaggeration that many naive parents want so desperately to believe it is.
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Summary: about the movie Kids......
Review: This movie/film is basically talking about the life style of 'that' group of tennager or kids in their everyday life. There are certain things that is mentioned in this movie/film which I will nver say is never out of the course but this will give people a more clearer picture of how the 'that' live their tennage/kids life when the country uses the 'open' method to run. What I could speak out is that most of the erotic portion of the movie were mostlly using their pictures which I think South-East Asian 'that' have yet to start with this. This is what I feel that western 'that' advanced first. This is still a good piece of film, whatever it is. This recommendation is for those whom are interested in this Genre of movie/film.
N/B: The 'that' comes with the 'thief' thing above the 'killer' or 'papa' thing as there are amny movie/films in R format. This also applies to other countries beside western.
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Summary: The Cold Truth
Review: last night i was warned by my older brother that kids was a disturbing film. i was a little scared at first but when i watched it, i saw many things that i know teens around me do. i am 15 and when i was 14, i had a boyfriend like telly. it brought flashbacks and i can swear that so many teenage guys are like that. i felt really bad for jennie, here she had hiv and tried to catch telly, but he already "deflowered" darcy by then. then she was raped. i see so much of what goes on in kids at my school so it quite honestly didnt disturb me that much. but i would recommend this movie to other teens, parents, teachers, whoever, to finally realize how hard being a teen really is. kids has really impacted me and i have learned a lot and will make a lot better decisions in my future so i dont end up like those teens.
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Summary: Yawn
Review: Saw the review on Siskel & Ebert back in 1995, so I decided to view it. It is shocking! It's also a wake up call to all parents! Parental irresponsibility was the basis in the storyline. A move Director Larry Clark did on purpose to prove his point to the audience about what's happening right now to our kids! Alcohol, Drugs, Sex, HIV are all risky behaviors that is present in this film and no one has the common sense to say, "Hey! This is wrong!" It's a gutsy move by Clark that blends into a powerful film. One that will leave an impression on you long after the last frame is over...and gives the viewer a call to action!
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