Product: Kids (1995)
Rating: 2.0
When you are young not much matters, when you find something you like that's all you got.
Another gritty and realistic film from the director of "Gummo" and "Bully," "Kids" starts where "Gummo" left off and further explores the nihilistic lives of modern urban adolescents who are desperately seeking to find a purpose in lives that are dominated by neglectful parents, broken homes, dysfunctional families, and the dehumanizing brutality of urban existence. "Kids" presents in all its ugliness the degeneration of our society and the way our teenagers attempt to deal with it through the use of drugs and promiscuous and meaningless sex.Although "Kids" is presented as realistically as possible it lacked the weirdness that made "Gummo" a great movie. "Kids" was also supposed to contain scenes of profound violence and brutality when the only scene that was violent was when a black kid got pummeled by a group of kids. Hardly shocking and hardly worth watching again, "Kids" falls short of my expections.