Product: Kids (1995)
Rating: 4.0
See it Once
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.