Kids

1995; 1080hd

Johnny's comments:

I had never seen Kids before making this update, although I remember hearing plenty about it back when it was released. I think maybe I wasn't quite 18 yet and that's why I never got around to seeing, but probably I was just not that interested in it. Watching it I was expecting something that was as shocking as the word was back in the day, but honestly, it's just another Larry Clark/Harmony Korine movie and having seen other movies they've made, Kids didn't really stand out as any more controversial and boundary pushing than the others (surely Ken Park is far more controversial, still banned in Australia...). Maybe because it was the first of its type, it shocked a few people, but it's really just the same as most of their later stuff. There's even some scenes where you feel some sympathy for the two male leads, sure, they piss it up against the wall by the end of the movie, but it's not all disgusting/selfish behaviour. It's also the first film of the only two actors that had any sort of career after that movie, Chloë Sevigny and Rosario Dawson.

Chloe Sevigny film clip (sample below)

Julie Stiebe-Glorius film clip (sample below)