Kids

As a high school student in New York, I would sit at the tables in the cafeteria overhearing the other students unabashedly talk about their sexual exploits. The boys would talk about their conquests. The girls bragged about their experiences with equal abandon - though they expressed some anxiety about pregnancy. Both boy and girls spoke of STDs with a hint of dread. Go in raw or protected? Some spoke with straightforward F-bombs, while others used words that had more than one syllable. I, not being in the loop, listened to the stories with shock and fascination.As a college student, I watched Larry Clark’s film with a degree of familiarity. There are parallel scenes where the boys and girls talk about their turn-ons. The boys talk about their experiences without caring about what the girls feel. The girls talk about their enjoyment of sex as well as the less enjoyable, annoying aspects.It all centers around one boy, Telly - an HIV carrier - merrily playing the “virgin surgeon” and unknowingly infecting the girls he screws at the same time. He sets his eyes on one girl - Darcy - in Greenwich village and plots to add her as a notch on his belt of conquests.At the same time, Jenny, a girl Telly had sex with a year ago, discovers she is HIV positive. She had only one sexual encounter - with Telly - and goes on a hero’s journey to catch up to Telly and hopefully stop him from infecting another girl.Along the way, both characters come across a motley crew of New York denizens - sleazy cab drivers, a paraplegic panhandler, the priapic Harold, and the DJ’s collectively known as N.A.S.A. Also along for the ride is Telly’s sidekick Casper, who brags about how many girls he’s banged while you, the viewer, knows damn well he is a virgin.Clark fetishizes the male body as Telly and Casper spray each other with water during the hot summer day they are on the prowl. Two girls show off their figures when they, along with Telly, Harold and Casper, break into a daytime pool during the night.Clark and Harmony Korine capture 90s New York in all its pre-gentrified glory. Brownstones and apartments with plaster peeling off wall and ceilings scrawled with magic marker graffiti serve as havens for the kids’ orgies. There is also an interlude of four boys around 11 or 12 puff-puff-and-passing a joint.The film also features future movie and TV stars Chloe Sevigny (Boys Don’t Cry, Big Love) and Rosario Dawson (Daredevil, The Mandalorian).I also recommend buying Larry Clark’s photo album “Tulsa” which proves as a starting point in his career which led to “Kids.”

I was nervous when I saw some reviews saying they got a German edition of the movie. It took some searching to find the standard edition Umbrella copy, but if that’s on the picture of your order, that’s what you ordered! Order was fulfilled through Amazon via Two Laughing Dogs. Has sleeve and the case shown in the picture on the store page. Very happy to own this film! It’s seemingly hard to find. Also if anyone is worried if it’ll work on their PlayStation in the US. It does! Includes Kids and the documentary on the same disc. Great product and great delivery experience.

This came out when I was in high school- when it finally came out to rent (VHS) at Blockbuster (lol..blast from the past huh!) Myself & my group of friends were told by one of their parents that we should see it...we were around 16 or so.. seeing that - especially after smoking weed- was too "real" and, as it was supposed to do- it made me increasingly uncomfortable. -But at the same time, it's a part of the 90s..the things that were going on at that time, gen x, our broken home'd ex hippie parents, who worked more than they were at home trying to manage all the bills..teens took advantage and a lot of us had older siblings, cousins, our peers and the streets that taught us about life.. The 90s were just a crazy time- we had so much talent- it's sad that so much of that is gone due to ODs, murders, and some that will probably forever be mysteries with conspiracy theories that will continue to haunt me. Sad too, that the guy that plays Casper is one of those that isn't with us anymore. On a lighter note- the soundtrack was awesome then & will always remain so.KIDS is a part of the 90s..and I had a copy years ago but I'm pretty sure my ex either lost it or broke it- so I wanted to get another before it becomes something that's not in my price range!

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Pretty good movie, really makes you think

Bestellung wurde pünktlich zugestellt, Produkt einwandfrei, gern wieder

if you know, you know

Saw this film on channel 4 of warning about AIDS and of sexual contacts around people. Wanted to get this at some point, glad to have it in my collection.