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He has an offensive sense of humor developed from a fascination with offensive topics and images not unusual for some teenage boys. He also treats his one legged dog in ways PETA would not appreciate. An eccentric loner living with his angelic grandparents (he only good parental figures in the movie) who he is constantly verbally abusing. Claude cannot gain the acceptance of his stereotypical manly man father who constantly calls his son queer or a girl for skateboarding and not sharing is hobbies are outlook on life. He expects his daughter to match the innocence and the perfect perception he has of her mother, reacting in emotionally disturbing ways when he finds out otherwise.
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Peaches is a pretty teenaged girl a little sexually advanced for her age, living alone with her father who holds an obsessive mourning for the loss of Peaches mother. Shawn is having an affair with his girlfriend’s mom, an unrequited love from a boy to a woman, a secret he knows could ruin a family that appears picture perfect from the outside. Four friends with separate storylines that aren’t really connected. We are then introduced to Shawn, Tiffany, Claude, and Tate. A continuous thought process of, “whoa!….why?……. We find out why at the end of the film but this sets the tone for the rest of the film. Ken Park opens with a teenage redhead boy shooting himself in the head in the middle of a skate park, giving the camera a deranged happy smile. The movie again consists of a cast of mostly inexperienced young actors but relies on veteran performers for the adult roles. Ken Park is the suburban step sister to Kids, focusing on the destructive behavior of the adults instead of the youth. Take note that I am a fan of the director and was familiar with this and his other works before writing this review. Ken Park is the most controversial film by this director and probably destroyed any art house cred he had for what most would consider exploitative. Unfairly been labelled an ephebophile for using 18 year old actors to portray younger teenagers in sexual situations. Larry Clark has stuck with this subject of teenage lust and rebellion ever since. Critically acclaimed as a “wake up call to parents”. In the 90’s he switched to film and enlisted then 20 year old Harmony Korine ( Gummo, Trashhumpers, Spring Breakers) to pen a script and gathered a group of young unknown-soon to be stars for is first film Kids, a day in the life movie documenting a group of teenagers aimlessly roaming the streets of NYC smoking dope and passing STDs around. This was back when artistic work documenting drug use was practically unheard of and so more shocking. This old pervert got his start in the 1950’s as a photographer, publishing a book, Tulsa, consisting of photographs of his friends shooting speed and heroin. Sex, drugs, and punk rock and roll is the formula to director Larry Clark’s film career. Ken Park is about several Californian skateboarders’ lives and relationships with and without their parents.