Films are similar in their matter-of-fact look at teens doing things that older folk prefer not to think about them doing, and in their aesthetic attractiveness.
More explicit but less “shocking” than Clark’s 1995 debut feature “Kids,” “Ken Park” was also written by Harmony Korine and was originally intended as Clark’s first picture until “Kids” financing came along. distrib could generate decent mileage with the film as an unrated specialized attraction.
With attention-grabbing controversy and a measure of critical praise in store, international sales will be strong to territories without censorship restraints, and an enterprising U.S. Beautifully crafted but emotionally dispiriting and alienating in its insistence on spotlighting only the negative aspects of life, this Euro-financed contribution to contempo Americana resembles certain recent French films in its unblinking depiction of raw sex. Exploitative, deliberately provocative pornography? Courageous revelation of the secret life of teens? Calculated sensationalism? Telling it like it is? These are the arguments that will inevitably cause fur to fly anywhere in the vicinity of “Ken Park,” a sexually explicit slab of teenage ennui from that self-proclaimed expert on the skateboard set, Larry Clark, working this time in tandem with ace cinematographer Ed Lachman. Then there’s a teenage boy graphically servicing his girlfriend’s mom the “good girl” daughter of a Bible-quoting dad who’s really a bondage-loving nympho the autoerotic asphyxiation freak who masturbates in loving close-up before stabbing his grandparents to death in their bed and the drunken macho father who sexually assaults his sleeping son. The picture begins with the title character blowing his brains out one sunny day at a park.
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