maxrottenberk I could not even get myself to finish watching this. The first shot is a CU of high schoolers making out for way too long. That wasn't the only cringy scene in the film. The entire first twenty minutes cuts between a group of guys talking about sex and a group of girls talking about sex. All the guys keep acting like they're the best and it is just monotonous and quite annoying. I remember a lot of use of the N word by white teens. The worst part about this film is that it isn't a fun bad movie to watch i.e. Birdemic, The Room. All I did was cringe. That goes for anything Harmony Korine has done. I've never been able to finish any of his films. So my advice for you is to not even try.

dragokin Kids sparked a lot of controversy when it came out because of the age of characters portrayed. It happens in New York although the message screams: "It could happen to you, as well." I was past my teens when i saw Kids and grew up away from the geographical location mentioned above. Although i could relate to most of stuff, there were some moments that didn't work out for me. For example, watching girls discussing oral sex wasn't convincing. On the other hand, it might mean i simply wasn't the target group of the movie.What Kids does well is showing growing up without much parents' involvement in an urban environment. In fact, after watching Kids you might even ask yourself whether you'd want to have children in such a merciless world. In the case that this is the real world, that is.

venompire The movie doesn't appeal me at all. We all know the state of kids all over the world. There is nothing new. There are no eye opening facts or something that gets our imagination going. Moreover i don't like the fact that they just talk and talk despite of showing anything relevant. Its more like a documentary or a talk show really. All in all its a boring movie. Not a good end. Nothing that keeps you in your seat through the movie. They tried to make it more exclusive but they forgot the basics of making a good movie. It was a waste of time for me. Guess that sums it up. Hope that helps and warns potential viewers. Thank you :)

eshaines ....just kidding. I only moved to Manhattan after graduating college, well into my adult life, and nothing about my life was remotely like the events in this film.Watching Kids was at once overwhelming and saddening. While I found it incredibly rich in entertainment value, I also felt deep pangs of terror for what might be happening to a pocket of American teenage society. With the advent of HIV+AIDS circulating the modern world, the lack of responsible parenting or other forms of positive role modeling, and youth's ignorance to safe sex practices due to an abundance of abstinence-only health programs or a lack of funding that would allow schools to provide free access to forms of birth control--everything has coalesced into the microcosm portrayed in this film. I don't think I know of any place in America, rural,suburban or urban, where parents are so dramatically unaware of the whereabouts and behavior of their children as they are in this film. It is just plain shocking. Also shocking was the opening scene, in which a, what, 13-year old, sleeps with a, what, 12-year-old? I mean I felt like i was watching kiddie porn, and even if it made sense in the context of the film, and was relevant to later scenes, that didn't stop it from being awkward and uncomfortable.All of this established, however, I do think Kids is a very stylistically successful film. The shots and acting are spot-on, so much so that one could not imagine these young actors and actresses having any alternate, real-life personas outside of their characters. Ten-year-olds getting high in a parentless apartment, talking about the quality of the weed they're smoking as though they were in their college years or late high school years--what does one even say to a scene like that? Newly acknowledged HIV-positivity of Chloe Sevigny's character--her subsequent getting high and showing up at a party and being more or less raped and unable to speak up and say a simple "no", not to mention divulging her health condition to prevent the disease's spread. This communication never happens during the course of the film, and it is this lack of conclusiveness that rounds out an overall very dark depiction of teen recklessness and the spread of disease due to irresponsibility.Fun times!