One of my friends in school told me to see this movie. She told me that it was "artful, realistic, and poignant". When I saw the movie, I took out by Blacklist and put the director and writer on the top. "Kids" has got to be one of the most exploitational pieces of cinematic garbage ever to be filmed.
"Kids" is basically unnerving pornography disguised as an art flick and a social commentary. The message of "Kids" is this: Kids suck! Kids are scum! Kids have turned America into a raging hellhole!
Just about everyone in this movie does drugs, has sex, and beats up people. All the kids talk about is sex, or how their "last experience" was (quite graphically, I might add). The movie later goes on to state that most of America's teenagers act like this! "Kids" is propaganda. "Kids" gives in to stereotypes, especially the stereotype that adults commonly have of teenagers today: that they are drug-using, Satan-worshipping, unprotected-sex-having degenerates (which for the most part is entirely untrue!). "Kids" is to teenagers what Nazi propaganda was to the Jews.
I do know that drugs and sex are a problem for some teenagers living in America, but certainly not to the extent that the movie portrays them. I would say that less than 1% of America's teenage population actually acts like the kids in "Kids".
Keep in mind that it is not just the message, but how the message was expressed. Like I said before, sex is all they talk about.
The movie starts out with this slack-jawed idiot teenager named Telly trying to persuade this teenage girl into having sexual intercourse. The girl says "yes" and pretty soon they are going at it. He walks outside to meet his scumbag friend, and tells him how he only likes virgins, even referring to himself as the "virgin surgeon". The movie then cuts to two girls who have had sex with this neanderthalic bastard as they are talking about their experience with him. They then go to a health clinic where one of the girls is tested positive with AIDS. The AIDS girl then tries to stop this self-proclaimed "f*ck monster" from infecting other innocent teenage girls. In the process she stumbles upon all sorts of questionable activity. She sees a vicious fight, drug parties, rampant and graphically ridiculous sex (including three girls on one guy), and contempt for humanity. All of those activities involved teenagers. She eventually makes it to a party where Telly is picking up his next victim, where she tried to save her but she is too stoned to do anything. She is then raped by one of the partygoers, who takes advantage of her "stoned" state. That last scene has got to be one of the most graphic and unnecessary scenes ever filmed. The camera shows everything, and never goes away.
The scenery is appalling too. You see grungy, apocalyptic, run-down apartments where little boys are smoking marajuana and having sex, where filth and contempt are so rampant that you want to throw up. This, my friends, is the true definition of propaganda. There is one big thing that this movie is lacking: TRUTH!
Don't get me wrong, the film was well-made. They did ever so great a job at conveying how scummy us teenagers are. The movie was original, well-acted, and brilliantly directed. If only that skill was used to make a truthful movie.
I consider the Harmony Korine (the writer, who was only 19 at the time) to be a sellout to all the teenagers out there. He made us look bad, and in doing so he attracted the attention of a media who is ever so eager to spread controversy. He took advantage of gullible adult minds, and from all of these atrocities he became a somewhat succesful filmmaker. He pulled a fast one on America. He now has parents and liberal critics saying that "everyone should see this". It is proclaimed as a "masterpiece" and a "wake-up call to the world". Sorry, Mr. Korine, your film is just propaganda filth. You add fuel to the anti-teenage campaign that has been a serious problem in the last ten years, already being fueled by uptight soccer moms, the Christian Coalition, and the Media itself. These are the people who say that "kids nowadays are evil and out of control" and that "today's young generation has gone down the gutter".
To all readers out there, I suggest that you see "Kids". Don't see it to take it seriously, see it to get an idea of how art can be used to twist the truth. See "Kids" to get an idea of how Adult America sees us.
We teenagers are decent people, that is the bottom line.
"Kids" is basically unnerving pornography disguised as an art flick and a social commentary. The message of "Kids" is this: Kids suck! Kids are scum! Kids have turned America into a raging hellhole!
Just about everyone in this movie does drugs, has sex, and beats up people. All the kids talk about is sex, or how their "last experience" was (quite graphically, I might add). The movie later goes on to state that most of America's teenagers act like this! "Kids" is propaganda. "Kids" gives in to stereotypes, especially the stereotype that adults commonly have of teenagers today: that they are drug-using, Satan-worshipping, unprotected-sex-having degenerates (which for the most part is entirely untrue!). "Kids" is to teenagers what Nazi propaganda was to the Jews.
I do know that drugs and sex are a problem for some teenagers living in America, but certainly not to the extent that the movie portrays them. I would say that less than 1% of America's teenage population actually acts like the kids in "Kids".
Keep in mind that it is not just the message, but how the message was expressed. Like I said before, sex is all they talk about.
The movie starts out with this slack-jawed idiot teenager named Telly trying to persuade this teenage girl into having sexual intercourse. The girl says "yes" and pretty soon they are going at it. He walks outside to meet his scumbag friend, and tells him how he only likes virgins, even referring to himself as the "virgin surgeon". The movie then cuts to two girls who have had sex with this neanderthalic bastard as they are talking about their experience with him. They then go to a health clinic where one of the girls is tested positive with AIDS. The AIDS girl then tries to stop this self-proclaimed "f*ck monster" from infecting other innocent teenage girls. In the process she stumbles upon all sorts of questionable activity. She sees a vicious fight, drug parties, rampant and graphically ridiculous sex (including three girls on one guy), and contempt for humanity. All of those activities involved teenagers. She eventually makes it to a party where Telly is picking up his next victim, where she tried to save her but she is too stoned to do anything. She is then raped by one of the partygoers, who takes advantage of her "stoned" state. That last scene has got to be one of the most graphic and unnecessary scenes ever filmed. The camera shows everything, and never goes away.
The scenery is appalling too. You see grungy, apocalyptic, run-down apartments where little boys are smoking marajuana and having sex, where filth and contempt are so rampant that you want to throw up. This, my friends, is the true definition of propaganda. There is one big thing that this movie is lacking: TRUTH!
Don't get me wrong, the film was well-made. They did ever so great a job at conveying how scummy us teenagers are. The movie was original, well-acted, and brilliantly directed. If only that skill was used to make a truthful movie.
I consider the Harmony Korine (the writer, who was only 19 at the time) to be a sellout to all the teenagers out there. He made us look bad, and in doing so he attracted the attention of a media who is ever so eager to spread controversy. He took advantage of gullible adult minds, and from all of these atrocities he became a somewhat succesful filmmaker. He pulled a fast one on America. He now has parents and liberal critics saying that "everyone should see this". It is proclaimed as a "masterpiece" and a "wake-up call to the world". Sorry, Mr. Korine, your film is just propaganda filth. You add fuel to the anti-teenage campaign that has been a serious problem in the last ten years, already being fueled by uptight soccer moms, the Christian Coalition, and the Media itself. These are the people who say that "kids nowadays are evil and out of control" and that "today's young generation has gone down the gutter".
To all readers out there, I suggest that you see "Kids". Don't see it to take it seriously, see it to get an idea of how art can be used to twist the truth. See "Kids" to get an idea of how Adult America sees us.
We teenagers are decent people, that is the bottom line.