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🎙️ EPISODE 471: 05.20.22
Thinking about when I watched this in high school and how my friends and I 100% blocked out all of the life lessons and just focused on the proto-memes like how Telly says "stoops" and the man without legs singing "I have no legs" and other shit. I think in the back of our minds, deep down, we knew. (Well, I hope this is the case!) We were just mental tourists, imagining what if our lives were so chaotic and dangerous and in that way much cooler than our own, shit: fun even! There's nothing fun about what Kid at age 40. It's fucking terrifying. It's of an era, for sure, but it's timeless in how it captures the pure Id of the male teenager and the darkness which that mindset can traverse, creating real pain and hell in its wake. |
The final rape scene plays out in real-time. It forces the audience to endure before a brief interlude of actual New Yorkers in various states of movement, consciousness. We return to the party and find telly and Darcy naked in bed, an almost biblical pose. In a voiceover, he says that "Fucking is all I like; take that away and I got nothing." This is the same nothing the cabbie referred to earlier: a state without thinking, without thought. It's peace, perhaps. And its unknowable to the teenage male, who lean in and seek the opposite out of spite, apathy and lack of knowledge.
The film ends on an alert and frightened looking Casper who says directly into camera: "Jesus Christ, what happened?" It made me think back to the youngest "kids" we see in
Kids: a quartet of shirtless bros sharing a joint. One comments on another's crucifix chain and they briefly discuss the merits of Mr. J.C. himself. They have no choice but to believe in Him. Deep down, they know they're already in hell.
Kids is a 1995 American coming-of-age drama film directed by Larry Clark and written by Harmony Korine. It stars Leo Fitzpatrick, Justin Pierce, Chloë Sevigny, and Rosario Dawson, all in their film debuts. Set in 1994, Fitzpatrick, Pierce, Sevigny, Dawson, and other newcomers portray a group of teenagers in New York City. It was released on May 17, 1995.
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