Has been germinating inside him since just before he moved to New York. It is the truest portrait of youth ever made.Īs “the most honest work I’ve ever done,” the movie he “always wanted to make first,” the one that’s “completely free of any self censorship.” It’s clear how proud he is to have actually pulled it off. , this film implicitly indicts American culture and the decline of parenting skills. Aside from the weirdo boner fuel, it is an exquisitely photographed and finely realized piece of directing. Of course, the trademark Clark dichotomy is all over this film. The ratings board may know what to do with a semi-erect penis, but how the fuck are they going to cope with father-son blowjobs? IfĮver finds American distribution, it’s going to create completely new categories of controversy. This is the most hardcore depiction of real teen sex and tortured adult libido you’ll ever see, skin-crawling shit that will make you simultaneously shudder and, involuntarily, get turned on. It’s a loose bunch of vignettes depicting teen suicide, violence, drugs, hate, and rampant sex among a group of skaters in the predominantly Filipino and Mexican community of Visalia, CA. It makesĬulminates in a finely detailed adolescent gangbang. Is Larry Clark exploding into the camera. There is no better example of all this than his latest film, Ken Park, a poignant look at poverty and pain that will make even the most hardened, overcoat-wearing adult theatergoer go, “Howe-lee-fuh-cking-shit.” He is a brave director that makes raw and dangerous films that scare you into an erection.
He is a perv who gets off on statutory-daring sex.
The truth about Larry is that he’s emphatically all of the above. Clark is an artist with something to say. Others are would-be Pauline Kaels who brave the seediness because Mr. Some are freaked by the man but can’t turn down gratuitous close-ups of Bijoux Phillips’ ass in jean shorts. Others insist he’s a grizzled old pervert who uses big movie budgets as excuses to film nubile youngsters naked and fucking. Some say Larry Clark is a visionary auteur who bravely portrays the decay of innocence in today’s youth. Everyone has a different opinion of the guy who did Kids with Harmony Korine.
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