![]() This film's defenders invariably use the same argument sooner or later: "This really happens". In the universe of Larry Clark, there are only two kinds of people: those who abuse, and those who are abused, and those two categories may (and probably will) shift in time. It's the kind of wisdom that depressed adolescents spray-paint on walls. What Larry Clark is apparently trying to say here, is the same thing he tried to say with his earlier films: being a teenager stinks. The reason I dislike this film, as I did both Kids and Bully (two movies that appear tame by comparison), is simply because once you take away the shocking aspects of it - the violence, the no-holds-barred sex scenes - it really isn't about anything much. But then, as it must, the film goes on and we are left to wonder what it was actually about. A shiver goes through the audience, people shift in their seats - we are not used to seeing this in a non-pornographic movie, and it kind of throws us off-balance for a moment. Both descriptions boil down to the same thing either way: you get to see erections. ![]() ![]() Depending on who you ask, the scenes in question are "brutally honest" or simply "disgustingly pornographic". Much has been made of this film's depiction of sex. ![]()
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