After seeing three of Larry Clark's movies,I've come to the conclusion that he just may be America's secret weapon against crime.I think the only reason he opens all his films with a couple of teen-agers getting laid is because he wants his target audience to think they're about to see another Hollywood film that glorifies sex and violence.But Mr. Clark has something else in mind entirely.Once he's got his audience ensnared he wastes no time in letting everybody know just how stupid and immoral criminal acts are.Everybody reaps what they sow in a Larry Clark film.Nobody gets away with anything.If this film has any fault with it at all,it's that it telegraphs what's going to happen to everyone,which is something the actors and the script itself can share equal blame for.Some of the camera work is a bit choppy,but that's to be expected in a film that uses as much steadi-cam footage as this one does.Whereas "Bonnie and Clyde" made robbing banks look like fun,this film's message is just the opposite.Robbing and killing isn't fun at all.It's stupid and ugly,and all that money won't buy you a ticket to Paradise.You won't even get close.
Review of Another Day in Paradise
