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.
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