Kids

Rating:
Summary: See it Once
Review: I think it's pretty funny that one of the reviewer's uncles rented the movie to watch with his nephew because he thought it was for young kids! In 1995, this movie caused a huge stir. It was on the news, it was panned by the critics for being exploitive, etc. You would have to be pretty isolated not to have heard about it.

It was also, I believe, Chloe Sevigny's first film. And she is terrific. The rest of the people in the film are amateur actors and Larry Clark's first film feels like a student film. But somehow, it comes off as artistic. I think the mistake people made is that this was some sort of "warning" or "life lesson" film. Larry Clark just thought it would be a good theme for a movie; to take a different route to explain teenage behavior and how the adult world continues to misperceive them. As for taste, the film is more voyeuristic than pornographic, and to tell you the truth, it's lost its shock value over the past nine years.

So I suggest: see it once, and then move on.

Rating:
Summary: Gritty, harsh look at misguided youth.
Review: Kids pulls no punches. It's a slap in the face. A harsh 90 minutes that only gets more intense as it progresses toward it's troubling and shocking climax.

I do think this is a movie all people should see. I would even go so far as to say that pre-teens should watch this movie with their parents. Kids vividly illustrates how brutal life can be if you have no one to guide you. This movie is here to shock you. It's here to tell you what could happen if children aren't given an education on sex, drugs and alcohol.

Rating:
Summary: A Cultural Study
Review: This movie is more than just a "Be Protected" sex-ed movie. It is a brilliantly filmed, excellently acted, synopsys of street life in the 90's. -It is a study of culture.
The 60's brought the freedom to be sexual, do drugs, and escape from the cages society had put young people in. Kids shows a world where kids are following the same rules as the 60's, but something is different. Now they are prisoners of their sexuality, and abusers of their drugs. It's like stepping outside of a prison cell to freedom, only to find that when you close the door behind you, you're just in another cell.
What do we do about this oppressive have-sex-as-soon-as- possible-and-abuse-drugs-irresponsibly culture? I don't know, and I don't think the director knows either. But these kids are the symptom, and the victim, of it.
Don't blame them.

Rating:
Summary: Real Life
Review: I watched this movie when I was in 8th grade for the first time. Now I am a college freshman and I bought the dvd.
First off the performance by Leo Fitzpatrick made sense. He was in the character rightly. This is real life and some people needs to face the facts that teenagers are having sex without protection, drinking, and doing drugs. This movie was greatly written into real life situations.

Rating:
Summary: i think that this is a good movie
Review: i thought this film was good it showed that this can really happen and does happen to kids around the world there's always going to be a guy who wants to sleep with every girl and not protect himself or his parter the film was smart i think that it was better that the actors were not experienced with acting that's what made the script so real the way that they talked even if they sounded stupid or immature this film captured truth and disbelief all at once i loved the movie!!!!

Rating:
Summary: The Youth of our Nation.
Review: Larry Clark has broken the boundaries with this film. Not only is it one of the realist depictions of our nation's youth, but it also brings the fear of the AIDS virus closer to home. This is not a piece of fictitious work, this is brutal honesty in its rawest form. While many will knock this film because of the pornographic nature, I saw past that and witnessed the birth of the next plague. Writer Harmony Korine has taken the world of our children and transferred it to the big screen. I never once saw this as a shock film or disgusting, I saw honesty and truth behind every scene. This is really what is happening in our backyards. Kids are not as young as they used to be, and are growing up in a world with more possibilities and distractions than ever before. This is the modern world, and these are the newest leaders.

While this is not what happens with all of our youth, it does paint a beautiful picture of just a handful. This is not just a story about NYC, it is a message for every city. This is happening all over this country. In the wealthy, poor, and everything in-between, our children are experimenting without any form of education or realization of their actions.

This is not a film that will leave a very good taste in your mouth, but then again it isn't supposed to. This is better and more honest than any reality program out there and it will scare the daylights out of you. This is our world, we must change it.

Grade: ***** out of *****