Product: Kids (1995)
Rating: 5.0
Life in the big city?
This would have to be Larry Clark's best movie. His other movies are very good too (Bully, Gummo), but this one stands out a little bit more. In most movies, the characters are people you can either (a.) relate to in some way, (b.) sympathize with, (c.) feel absolute pity for, or (d.) absolutly loathe. I think in this movie, you can sometimes feel all those emotions at different parts of the movie. But in the final analysis, you tend to think that these "kids" are just super predators headed to a life of crime.... But the beauty of this movie are the small scenes of urban decay and deliberate dialogue. Observing them interact is very watchable, and you can also pick out scenes where they behave in a very normal fashion. Their brutal, conniving, sexual way of living life in NYC may or may not be typical for kids their age, but in this story, at least some of them will pay for their ignorance and apathy with the ultimate price: their life.