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Plot: An amoral, HIV-positive skateboarder sets out to deflower as many virgins as possible while a local girl who contracted his disease tries to save his next target from her same fate.
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MCT:September 1, 2008
Interesting movie, has a very real feel to it. It shows just how messed up teens really are. Definately worth seeing.
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MCT:August 31, 2008larry clarks directorial debut about new york city teenagers and the way they act.was called exploitation by a lot of critics and viwers because of the amount of sex and drugs.exploitation?? obviously the viewers that called it exploitation are either very naive or are the kind of parents that the film warns about. trash that let there kids do whatever they want. the film is about nyc skaters and skaters are crazy motherfuckers. anyone that watches the film and says kids dont act that way i guarantee there kids are out doing the same thing or worse. when the film came out i was 16 and i remember defending it against someone that was saying that kids dont act that way. i know the way i acted when i was a teen and i wasnt an angel. but the films teens are a little crazier but they are also skaters and u know how crazy skaters are from seeing jackass. so instead of calling it exploitation maybe you need to take it as a warning.maybe u should take it as a wraning as to what your kids are really up too instead of thinking your kids are angels and because they tell you they dont do anything bad you need to know that they are really doing things behind your back. smarten up america. what did u do when you were a teen. did you lie to your parents?????
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MCT:August 26, 2008
Doesn't pull any punches, or take an elitist standpoint on teenage behavior. It simply showcases it along with it's consequences and tragedy.
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MCT:August 3, 2008Really, Guiys? Really? The most disturbing thing about this movie is the acting. Truly horrendous. This is not an accurate depiction of most teens. If it is, then teenaged girls are especially stupid and naive. Even more frightening, is the rating most fellow flixsters are giving this piece of crap.
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MCT:July 28, 2008Larry Clark turns out a prophetic teen drama asbout inner city oversexed, druggie children in this grim HIV is bad message tale.
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MCT:July 9, 2008
This was a disturbing little piece of cinema. The performances are so naturalistic that you'd think it was a documentary.
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MCT:July 1, 2008
An unflinching look at young people in the world, today...not for the faint of heart. The antithesis of the "world of Disney".
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MCT:June 27, 2008Another crappy teenage movie. It left me wanting more. It was like a big orgy going bad. The movie has no message or point.
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MCT:June 21, 2008Larry Clark tackles the material in the script he's given with unfiltered ruthlessness. This is one of the most shocking films I've ever seen, depicting a culture that holds nothing sacred and lives in a world without moral boundaries. It's a film full of emotionless sex, brutal violence and careless substance abuse. It doesn't search for poetic meaning or cinematic potential in the subject matter. We're given the facts in all their ugly reality. This is a great film.
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MCT:June 16, 2008
I had forgot about this movie till recently. A peak into lives of a group of inner NYC kids. One who is set out to deflower as many virgins as he can, while not aware that he is HIV positive. Very realistic and very scary.
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MCT:June 10, 2008How does director Larry Clark expect anyone to care about his characters when they don't care about themselves?
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MCT:June 3, 200812 year olds fucking eachother and buying coke and Marijuana from a jamaican in the public fucking park?!? I hate you so much Larry Clark you need to stop hanging around 12-year olds, its kinda pedophelic.
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MCT:May 26, 2008
Kids is one of those films about teenagers and is made for teenagers but doesn't seem to give a sh*t about teenagers. This problem relates directly to the director Larry Clark. So what does Clark care about? Letting people know how edgy he is and how he's willing to be so provocative, which I like in a filmmaker when it's done to tell an honest story. Nope here Clark just wants to look edgy while showing the world that people my age are careless *ssholes (Not even the *ssholes I know aim to give girls AIDS.) While I give credit to the cast particularly Chloe Sevigny and Rosario Dawson for trying with the material they have, there's nothing about Kids that my grandmother couldn't tell me. So more or less thanks for nothing Larry Clark.
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MCT:May 25, 2008
low budget indie effort from larry clerk, concerning kids who are well into there drugs and unsafe sex, very eye opening, with a ending that is very controversial, but very relevent, and needs to be seen, show this film to kids in schools, itll clear up a few problems
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MCT:May 15, 2008
Whether it's Clark's excuse to film child porn or his attempt to portray the "real lives" of teenagers, this film fails on all fronts. While the acting is pretty good, that can mostly be attributed to the actors pretty much portraying either themselves or people they have known. It's an ambitious bit of filmmaking, but it's certainly not a wake-up call to the world; it's a wake-up call to parents and gives such people a reason to be even more restrictive on their kids. As a kid watching this, it was interesting and a good movie. As a parent myself, it's scary and unneccessary in a lot of ways.
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MCT:May 12, 2008
Most shocking and very weird of the reckless teen (under 18s only) I ever watched. Director Larry Clark made an impact in 1995 with this confronting controversial look at American youth, and has since crafted a body of work capturing portraits of troubled teens with uncomfortably voyeuristic detail.
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MCT:May 10, 2008
After seeing Larry Clark's film Bully for the first time a few years ago, I bought into the stuff on the internet about him being perverted/exploitative, etc, and wrote him off as a filmmaker. Upon seeing Bully again several months ago, I shed the burden of such claims and realized it really is a great film. So now that I'm past that, I decided to check out the film he is most known for, Kids. Like Bully, Kids is an unflinchingly honest look at the lives of American teenagers in the 90s. Sure, it also has its fair share of teenage sexuality, but it's not arbitrary nor is it exploitative. The film involves a HIV-positive teenager (Leo Fitzpatrick) who is on a mission to deflower virgins in his area, carelessly endangering them. A girl (Chloe Sevigny) who slept with him in the past discovers she is now HIV-positive and sets out to find him. It's an unsettling and disturbing story, no doubt, but Clark shows us what intrepid filmmaking is about by presenting the sad reality of these kids' lives, refusing to shy away no matter how ugly the subject matter, which is as close to reality as possible, becomes. Several actors started out in this film who have gone on to be successful in the business, including stars Fitzpatrick (who also appeared in Bully, and was a recurring character in the amazing HBO television series The Wire) and Sevigny (who has appeared in several wildly successful films such as Boys Don't Cry or American Psycho), and also Rosario Dawson (Sin City, Clerks 2). One of my favourite characters in the film was Casper, who, I've just discovered from his IMDB page, sadly committed suicide at 25. The film had a pretty cool soundtrack, also. This is a landmark cult film, and a very interesting one, and it's worth seeing for that alone.
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MCT:May 8, 2008
Very realistic, very disturbing. I'm glad I'm no parent because people...this is basically what your kids are doing when your not around.
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MCT:April 18, 2008
Less explicit than "Ken Park" but still at the 'will somebody PLEASE think of the children?' state. It's also more meaningful, whereas, "Ken Park" becomes a completely unlikeable pseudo-philosophical anthology. Reading the synopsis, though, I gave "Kids" too much of an expectation. Having the premise of an ignorant, promiscuous HIV-positive teen on the loose gives too many opportunities for a decent screenplay. Also, kids may do the darndest things, but they also get on your last nerve with the colloquialism - almost forcing you to input subtitles.
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Omg hue - i cant believe you know about this movie! Amy Halley-Wright was always talking about it - saying how it was her favourite movie of all time - and we were like are you crazy? And she said Yeah, and I dont think there's anything wrong with what he did though - can you beleive that!? I may have told you that story already dont remeber. But what star rating did you give this? It just says - I want to see it.
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MCT:April 8, 2008
Impressive in its fearlessly honest nature. Falters a little bit with some contrived dialogue and forced acting though.
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MCT:April 6, 2008
Superior incluso a Ken Park, "Kids" es la mejor película de su autor que con un título tan abierto como kids (chicos) nos muestra una realidad comprometida, extraña con el valor de la amistad y la enfermedad del Sida como telón de fondo. Nadie se la debe de perder. Una obra maestra.
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