Kids
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Movie Reviews of Kids
Movie Review: Powerful
Summary: 5 Stars
First of all, I would like to say that this is possibly one of the realest films I have ever seen. It really proves a point, and the way it has a real-time feel makes it more realistic, compared to other supposed "similar" films, like Thirteen. Which brings me to my second point.
This movie should not be compared to Thirteen, because Thirteen is not nearly as shocking, graphic, or believable. It gets one star in my book; also the plot and the characters were quite boring to me.
Even though KIDS takes place in New York City, which is one of the biggest cities, this kind of behavior takes place everywhere..this is the truth. In fact, I was friends with kids like Casper and Telly in high school, which sort of made the shock value of this film significantly less for me. Reguardless, the AIDS situation is quite realistic in this movie. It definitely makes you think before your next endeavor with a sexual partner.
The soundtrack also made this movie awesome to me. Sebadoh and The Folk Implosion make great music, along with Slint, who's song is not in the movie, but on the soundtrack.
To all of you teenagers bashing this movie, claiming this does not really happen: Crawl out from underneath the rock you have been living under, or stop denying reality, because I am 100% sure the whole situation of this movie is happening in almost all urban and rural areas right now.
Movie Review: It's in my all-time top 10 for sure.
Summary: 5 Stars
I actually got kind of sick when I first saw this movie. Even though I knew that this was how teenagers really acted (I'm 19 myself), it was still shocking to see in such graphic detail. The movie had a lot going for it, but I still vowed never to watch it again. But it just stayed in my head. When I watched it again a few weeks later, I didn't get squeamish at all this time around, the good aspects were heightened, and I really enjoyed it. This is great cinema, period. I have a very hard time believing that there was a script for this because the dialogue is the most real I've ever heard in a movie. Major credit to writer Harmony Korine (who also wrote and directed Gummo). Leo Fitzpatrick, Justin Pearce, and Chloe Sevigny give great performances as the main characters. True, this movie isn't for everyone - some people can't handle the fact that this is real life and not some fake suburban setting, so they'll just write it off as garbage. That's fine, they don't know what they're missing. I won't say that the film depicts the kind of life I wish I have, but it's great that a talented filmmaker like Larry Clark had the guts to show it. At this cheap price, the DVD is a major steal. If you haven't seen Kids yet, don't get offended easily, and/or really like films about young adults, do what I did and blind buy this sucker.Movie Review: MAJOR WAKE-UP CALL
Summary: 5 Stars
When it first came out, my daughter (then a teen) said "You don't want to see it, Mom"...so I didn't see it, I buried my head in the sand. Until a couple of women in an HIV prevention group I run encouraged me to see it...WOW...talk about blowing the illusion of "safety in numbers"...The movie is powerful, wonderfully filmed, raw and honest and terrifying. A young Latina, zealously guarded by her family ("don't get a boyfriend", but perhaps no explanation as to WHY to stay away from boyfriends) is easily seduced by a young boy who only has sex with virgins, so he won't catch any diseases. Later, one of his virgin victims learns she is HIV positive and you ask yourself, HOW? How,when he only does virgins and he was her first and only...the answer to that question blew me away. HOW can anyone REMEMBER what or who they do when they are high and drunk and passed out or in a black out? How can these, or any, kids survive and flourish in a place where parents are unavailable for whatever reason (work) or excuse (drugging, immature themselves) and the wolves come in peer-sized packages? Major wake up call, people...parents, teachers, friends, families, survivors, recovering people...UNITE...GET INFORMED, GET INVOLVED...SAVE THE KIDS.Movie Review: 'Kids' is an education in possibilities
Summary: 5 Stars
I feel compelled to throw my two cents on a review. Why? Because if I had seen the movie Kids sooner, it might have shaken me out of my obliviousness before I contracted a permanent STD when I was 20. Any review of this movie that's generally negative, or fails to get the point, or cries for an explanation is from an ADULT looking at the movie Kids and not remembering the beasts that were around them in teenagerdom, and thus thinking that this movie "misses something."
What it misses is the happy ending - the warm fuzzy feeling that everything will be alright, and we can go back to pointless consumerism/prescription drugs/TV - whatever distracts us from the fact that not just shabby queers get AIDS.
This movie doesn't pretend to answer any questions because it's an alarm for <*YOU*> to find the answer to the growing problem of sexuality as a deadly force in teenage society and beyond.
In your day-to-day hustle and bustle you might just forget that people do live this way, and sh** does happen. All this movie aims to do is remind you of that, and hopefully stick with you and make the waste of a generation that is today's youth think twice (or at all), and understand the concept of *consequences.*
Movie Review: A must see movie!
Summary: 5 Stars
I watched the movie kids when it came out and I found it extremely educational. This movie should be used in Sexual Education at school. The movie seemed like it was a documentary. It was so real. The actors and actresses played their characters so well. This type of movie needs to be shown with adult supervision and discussed afterwards. It is reality. This movie is like a scared straight tactic. I am a mother of three with my oldest being 15 and I am going to watch this with him and we are going to discuss it. It is very graphic and the point is it is REALITY!!! This kind of thing is happening so we need to talk to our children about it instead of acting like it doesn't exist. Telly is the main character who is carrying the AIDS virus and he doesn't know it. He only likes to have sex with virgins and he is spreading the disease rather quickly. One of his victims finds out she has the virus and goes out on a hunt for Telly to tell him. While on her journey she encounters a whole heap of other problems. There is partying, sex, and drugs in this movie and that is what is happening in the REAL world. That is why this is a must be movie in my opinion. Education is the key. It's about how much you know.