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It is a bit, yeah. Depending on how you look at it, it could be a comment on how adolescents are increasingly presented as sexual objects in modern culture, or an attempt at an honest depiction of how 'young people' actually behave, especially when ingested of x amounts booze/drugs, or the arguably slightly suspect pecadillo of a (much) older man, or some sort of combination of the three, but to the extent that the imagery's all that 'erotic' it's always in a fairly queasy, if not outright disturbing way - he's never struck me as someone who's in the business of making films you're supposed to sit there watching with a box of tissues handy, at least.
And Clark does pretty clearly care about his characters - It's not so apparent in Kids perhaps, but for anyone who thinks otherwise ( and anyone who doesn't as well - it's a great film, ) I'd highly recommend Bully, which came out I think about two or three years ago, and is as close to a cinematic realisation of Dennis Cooper's work as is likely to see general release for a while yet anyway - It's as good a movie as My Loose Thread is a novel, IMVHO. |
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