They use the F word frequently, and in front of adults too. The kids whose stories we see have everything they want except satisfaction with what's available to them. By the end of the film, the viewer has a good idea of how Ken Park felt. Presumably he pulled the trigger because he was bored. We don't get to learn much about Ken Park and his suicide. Yes, a benign place, but it seems to be filled with suburban Schlubs who live from one moment to the next. Next time you buy a can of olives, check out where they're from. It's a pleasant little town in California's central valley. In a place like Visalia, life is more or less what you make of it. It's the name of a boy in early adolescence who blows his brains out at the skateboard arena in Visalia, California.
It's not hard to see why this thing hasn't been released in America. Showing a guy masturbating to climax, the Indian girl having to do something else, the three and so on. The hardcore sex scenes are all made erotic so there's isn't any ugliness to them, which was the case in Kids but that film was going for something else. Why Clark shows us everything he does here is something I really don't understand. I found a few scenes laughable when I guess they were trying to be dramatic.
The movie kept me entertained throughout, probably because this just isn't the type of thing we're use to seeing. Clark has been called pretty much everything but the word pervert keeps being used and I'm really curious what his motives are being such films as this. The film follows a day in the life of several teenagers through being molested by their fathers, to sleeping with their girlfriends mothers to being raped, suicide, murder and pretty much everything else that involves sex or murder. Ken Park (2002) *** (out of 4) If Larry Clark's Kids was a wakeup call to parents then I don't know what the hell this is.
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