Product: Kids (1995)
Rating: 2.0
Come on now!
Give me a break people. I'm a 19 year old film student from Boston. I think I know good film when I see one. You people are confusing something great with something controversial. Just because something is in-your-face doesnt automatically make it good. Yes, some teens are violent. Yes, some teens have sex. Yes, some teens do drugs. I have done some of those things myself. But there isn't much realism to this story. I think Clark and Korine just made this as shocking as possible because they wanted to come off as hip, and they wanted attention. The cinematography is bad. The sound is bad. The editing isn't all that great either. The acting is so-so. I don't think parents should see this with their children. Sure, it deals with important issues, especially safe sex. I applaud them for acknowleding important issues with kids. However, I think this movie exploits troubled kids in an effort to seem cutting edge. I noticed many 15 year olds that said "we do this, this is a real movie, man!" No, you probably don't do that. Not the way Clarke is suggesting. You people just got excited to see your age group doing shocking things not usually seen on film, like one reviewer said. This is a poor representation of the "troubled" kids in life. I am a city kid. I've seen many bad things. I've done my share of wild things, so I've also seen people screw up their lives. But this was just ridiculous. I'm sure SOME kids live this way, but this movie expolited the few that do, and made all party kids seem like stupid, callous monsters. Shame on them.