07.29.07

Drunk Reviews: Kids

Posted in drunk reviews, drama, reviews at 2:58 am by FilmFemme

SPOILER ALERT (anything I write while drunk will probably spoil something…)

Hey man, the whole plot of Kids is pretty fucked up. Here’s my problem, so this girl Jenny (Chloe Sevigny’s debut role) gets HIV from this totally immoral dude named Telly (Leo Fitzpatrick’s debut - and pretty much the last thing he did worth mentioning). Jenny goes searching for him to tell him or yell at him or something. Eventually she finds him - while he’s having sex with another virgin. But, she doesn’t stop him! Maybe this is supposed to be realistic or something but as far as I can tell all it does is demonize Jenny for losing her virginity.  Well, maybe not for that specifc reason, but it definitely does demonize her when it seems like she’s kind of a victim.  Although, calling her a victim is kind of taking away her agency because it’s not like Telly raped her or anything.  So I don’t know, I’m torn about this. But still, why the fuck wouldn’t she STOP HIM??? Also, the conversations among the girls seem to imply to me that they have sex for pretty much every reason except for that they want to.  Except Rosario Dawson - she seems totally horny.

Basically, this movie is the quintessentially (that word is hard to spell while drunk) 90s indie flick. The style is so familiar - saturated and shaky and low-budget. It’s OK in general, but not that great. For a similar style and better characters and dialogue and such I guess I would recommend something like Buffalo ‘66. Hey but it’s Rosario Dawson’s first movie and she is pretty awesome. And what’s the deal with this Larry Clark guy? Look out for his next appearance on To Catch a Predator…

Oh, my final problem with this movie is that the soundtrack mixing was totally out of whack.  Like, I know it’s low budget and all, but I had to turn the TV up sooooo loud just to understand what the fuck these kids were saying but then the background noise, was like, deafening.  Is this really so hard?  To balance these things out? Oh yeah, and why are commercials so much louder than TV shows?  That is fucking annoying.

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