Ed Gonzales of Slant Magazine noted some redeeming elements in an "otherwise familiar Kids procedural" in which "the parents are all monsters of some kind and there’s an excuse for every teenager’s bad behavior". Review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reports a 46% approval rating based on 13 reviews. A protest screening held in Sydney, hosted by film critic Margaret Pomeranz, was shut down by the police. The film was banned in Australia due to its graphic sexual content and portrayals of underage sexual activity after it was refused a classification by the Australian Classification Board in 2003. Clark says that this is because of the producer's failure to get copyright releases for the music used. The film has not been released in the United States since its initial showing at the Telluride Film Festival in 2002. Clark was arrested and spent several hours in custody, and McAlpine was left with a broken nose. Clark is alleged to have been angry over McAlpine's remarks about 9/11. Distribution Īlthough it was sold for distribution to some 30 countries, the film was not shown in the United Kingdom after director Larry Clark assaulted Hamish McAlpine, the head of the UK distributor for the film, Metro Tartan. The arrangement was to film using digital video, but Clark and Lachman used 35mm film instead. The film was given a $1.3 million budget. Clark ultimately used most of Korine's script, but rewrote the ending. Dissatisfied with his own draft, he hired Harmony Korine to pen the screenplay.
Arguing against aborting the pregnancy, she asks Ken rhetorically if he's glad his mother didn't abort him Ken does not answer. The film returns briefly to Ken Park, who has impregnated his girlfriend.
In their conversation afterward, they refer to an unnamed person they know who is now dead. The film cuts frequently between these subplots, with no overlap of characters or events until the end, when Shawn, Claude, and Peaches meet and have sex as a threesome. He records himself on his tape recorder so that the police will know how and why he did it, puts his grandfather's dentures in his mouth, lies naked in his bed, and falls asleep. He finds that the act arouses him sexually. He eventually kills his grandparents, in retaliation for petty grievances. He engages in autoerotic asphyxiation while masturbating to a video of a woman playing tennis. Tate is an unstable and sadistic adolescent living with his grandparents, whom he resents and frequently abuses verbally. When he catches her having sex with her boyfriend Curtis – whom she has playfully tied to her bed – he beats the boy and savagely disciplines her, then forces her to participate in a quasi- incestuous wedding ritual with him. Peaches is a girl who lives alone with her obsessive and highly-religious father, who fixates on her as the innocent embodiment of her deceased mother. However, after coming home drunk one night, he attempts to perform oral sex on Claude, which prompts the boy to run away from home. Claude's father detests him for not being masculine enough.
He casually socializes with their family, the rest of whom are completely unaware of the affair.Ĭlaude fends off physical and emotional abuse from his alcoholic father while he tries to take care of his neglectful pregnant mother, who never does anything to defend him. Throughout the story, he has an ongoing sexual relationship with his girlfriend's mother Rhonda, whom he tells that he fantasizes that he is with her when having sex with her daughter Hannah. Shawn is the most stable of the four main characters. His death is used to bookend the film, which follows the lives of four other teenagers who knew him. He arrives at a skate park, where he casually sets up a camcorder, smiles, and shoots himself in the temple with a handgun. The title character Ken Park (nicknamed "Krap Nek": his name spelled and pronounced backward), is a teenager skateboarding across Visalia, California.
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