![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But to what effect? Free of the halfhearted, perfunctory cautionary-tale moralizing of Kids and Bully, Ken Park comes across as little more than a feature-length version of the vilified Calvin Klein "teen porn" ads of the late '90s. As his dubiously-legal cast of unknowns struggle their way through the episodic script's banal dialogue, Clark finds plenty of opportunity to linger on scenes of graphic onanism, oral gratification, and ritualistic violence. It's like a Warhol film without the humor. In its own arbitrary, inscrutable way, it's Clark's most truthful statement as a director: Ken Park forgoes any modicum of social commentary or realism in favor of presenting a languid, explicit fantasia on nubile, vapid trash teens. Yet another excursion into absurd teen sensationalism from co-director Larry Clark - teaming up once again with screenwriter Harmony Korine, the enfant terrible who scripted their 1995 breakthrough Kids - Ken Park lays bare (as it were) the filmmaker's obsessions in a manner he managed to evade with his previous efforts. ![]()
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