rating:
(out of
4 stars)United States; 1995
Directed by Larry Clark; produced by Cary Woods; written by Harmony Korine
Starring Leo Fitzpatrick, Sarah Henderson, Justin Pierce, Joseph Chan, Jonathan Staci Kim, Chloe Sevigny, Rosario Dawson
Below you will find a temporary review for this film. The real (better, more complete) review will be online very soon.
'Kids' is not a great movie but it is definitely one you will remember. We
look at one day in the life of Telly (Leo Fitzpatrick). The only thing he is
interested in is having sex. The best thing to do, so he says, is
deflowering virgins. The movie opens with him in bed with one of his
virgins. She is afraid she gets pregnant. "That's not gonna happen," he
says. She asks why and his reply is: "Because I love you, I care about you."
The next minute he has what he wants. A couple of hours later he is telling
his best friend Casper (Justin Pierce) all about it.
Kids like him do exist. He is evil in a way, but probably doesn't no better
in another way and how Leo Fitzpatrick handles the character is great. There
is a scene with his mother that will say enough about how he grew up. The
movie introduces another girl who only slept with Telly in her life. She is
tested positive on HIV and wants to find Telly to talk to him about it. We
follow her in some conversations and on parties as well and we get the idea
how the lives of all those kids are. The same time Telly tries to get
another girl into his bed. She is the sister of one of his friends.
The movie doesn't have a real story but the things we see speak for
themselves. The movie warns you for the danger of HIV and things like that,
it shows what can happen when parents are not at all involved in their kids
lives and it shows what alcohol and drugs can do. The last things is showed
in one of the closing scenes and it really is disturbing.
On the other hand some things can be a little overrated. Most people were
drunk once in their lives and since soft-drugs are basically legal here I
have seen enough in that area as well and it never got that for. Of course
there are exceptions and I think the movie shows us one of them. In the end
we have a good movie that really wants to say something and that can only be
a good thing.