Larry Clark
Ken Park

As Freud used to say, the human mind is composed of many facets... . In this film, Larry Clark enters the subconscious... the superego... whatever you want to call it, and describes what happens in the normal life of all people, who may be different but in this film share the commonality of having skeletons in the closet. Starting from the premise that this film, in my opinion, praises and proclaims itself, because despite being a scandalous film, it has garnered a good number of admirers (something his "student" Harmony Korine... unfortunately failed to achieve, despite making, in my opinion, better, though similar films, characterized by greater emotionality) who couldn't help but watch this film; symbolically speaking, as the emblem of scandal in cinema and other/other judgments. In this film, Larry Clark tries to bring out the raw truth that burns you, that makes you suffer, that embarrasses you, the truth that makes you want to bury yourself. The film begins with a suicide, preceded by the footage from a camera and a smile from the boy about to commit suicide. It transitions a bit from commercial and teenage cinema, as in the part about the skater boy who is continually tormented by his father, although the term commercial should be taken with a grain of salt in my opinion, because even in this part there are some scenes that best represent the rot of humanity, the father, for example, is someone who visits prostitutes with his buddy, or unfortunately does other things to the skater boy... out of loneliness. Then it moves to a more independent cinema (greatly influenced by the aforementioned Harmony Korine) and at times a bit dark, like the story of the girl Peaches, who one day is discovered by her father while she was in intimate acts with the boy and, imagining the consequences, it leads to a pseudo-wedding between the father and Peaches, as if to bring out precisely the purist side of the church itself, but showing its madness, squalor, fear (dictated by taboos and also dogmas), but in my opinion, this discourse cannot be made only for the church but for all the hypocrites and purists commonly among us. Then we have a more perverse and erotic cinema if you will, regarding Shawn, who, in short, gets involved with his girlfriend's mom and the guy and other similar characters, and here Larry wants to emphasize the insensitivity, senselessness, and lack of reason that a young person has, here it is exaggerated and rendered hallucinatory to better understand what really happens in the unknown these days. The film ends with the boy who committed suicide at the beginning of the film and a girl next to him who says (if I remember correctly) "are you happy your parents aborted you?" and the boy gives a shy nod in response. Here the curtains close on a film that hurts, burns, and scares. Personally, I judge it as a not very exceptional film, because it is an alternative film but just as constructed for the people, or for those who still want a strange but commercial film at the same time, so I don't judge it very positively; it would be a 2 and a half but I round it up to a 3, because it is not a stupid film even if for certain reasons it has been hated, also because it is too self-congratulatory with the boastful text on the cover "the scandal film", it is raw but also quite sold out.