Product: Kids (1995)
Rating: 5.0
This Is America As It Really Is Right Now
"Kids" is one of the best films of the 1990s. Over five years since it has been released nothing has changed, this I know from personal observation. Larry Clark and Harmony Korine created an incredibly accurate portrait of today's youth. No parents present (because they have to work or because they don't care), no hope, no conscience, and plenty of time to waste. It is episodic like real life and the kids playing the kids are frighteningly real. Anyone who is disgusted and shocked by "Kids" is likely to be one of the people who would say, "my kid isn't like that" and be absolutely wrong. I'm sorry to say that I think that the kids as portrayed in "Kids" are not the minority, but the majority. Alcohol and drug abuse is widespread amongst teenagers and even pre-teens. So is reckless sex. "Kids" is absolutely authentic.