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🎙️ EPISODE 471: 05.20.22 review begins ~21:19
The movie poster for this one kind of says it all: it’s both a simple primer, a sexy advert and — ultimately — a warning all wrapped into one. This is a confounding film, and not just because it’s trying too hard to be Kids 2 (it is), but because A) it sort of is, and B) that’s an impossible proposition to begin with. I do wonder how it would have played minus the gratuitous sex stuff. If, like in Kids most/some of that stuff was just alluded to and not shown (and Jesus Christ is it SHOWN here, in all its unsimulated glory). That final MMF ménage à trois seemed especially forced and unnecessary. As if Clark felt some need obligatory need to both do one last big sex thing + tie these three characters together. |
It's certainly elevated by Korine's writing. His stamp is all over this in a way I wasn't quite expecting, which — let’s be honest — is essentially the saving grace of the picture (all the narration especially sounds like his voice). Visually the film isn’t bad looking. It’s cloaked in a slight sepia-adjacent tone that screamed “very 2002” and maybe they got too cute with the framing / editing, but it’s fine. It just seems so far removed from the lovely and naturalistic shots they got seven years earlier on the opposite coast. It isn’t fair to compare the two films, but it’s extremely hard not to.
Ken Park is a 2002 erotic drama which revolves around the abusive and dysfunctional lives of several teenagers, set in the city of Visalia, California. It was written by Harmony Korine, who based it on Larry Clark's journals and stories. The film was directed and shot by Clark and Edward Lachman. It was released on August 31, 2002.
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