Clark and screenwriter Harmony Korine, the latter in particular. Even more shocking is the daunting realization that this is one hundred percent accurate and we must commend Mr.

More shocking is that this is just a day in the life for them. Meanwhile, Telly is trying to seduce his next victim while he and a group of other nasty individuals roam unsupervised through a place as horrific as any drug underworld. One of his victims (Chloe Sevigny) discovers she has AIDS because of her one-night stand with him and as she slowly suffers, searches the city to confront him. Not because he can charm young girls enough to seduce them into deflowering them, but because he's simultaneously signing their death warrants with the HIV virus. The most sickening of them is Telly (Leo Fitzpatrick). We see very little of parents, or adults for that matter, and focus on a group of rambunctious, vulgarity-spitting, lecherous teenagers who are devoted to getting drunk, abusing drugs, and giving away their virginity.

'Kids' is set in the drug-riddled streets of New York. And I can fairly say now that as a reviewer and film-goer, I can forgive Mr. It's a sick and disgusting picture, but it's also somewhat of a wake-up call. So why is 'Kids' a great movie and 'Bully' an awful one? Because while 'Bully' only pretended to have a purpose, 'Kids' *has* a purpose and it never once dumbs down on that. They're both frighteningly brutal, appalling in their explicit content and vulgar dialogue, and they expose the nasty undercurrents in the younger generations of today, especially in urban cities where parental control (or control of any kind) seems all but present. In many respects, 'Kids' and 'Bully' are much the same movie. Then I happened to see the Siskel & Ebert review for his first movie 'Kids' and after much deliberation, decided to give this controversial filmmaker a second chance. Clark as a director and vowed never to see another movie of his again. I saw 'Bully' first about a year ago and I was blown out of my mind by how offensive and atrociously cruel that movie was and how it redeemed itself in no way. Both were directed by the same man, Larry Clark. One of them is 'Kids' and the other is 'Bully.' The former is a haunting work of art the latter is a clunk of garbage. There are two highly, and deservedly, controversial movies dealing with the issues of drug and alcohol abuse, underage sex, lack of control, and the preteen and teenage minority of urban America.

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