"KIDS"

This movie is a drama that takes place in New York City and follows a group of teenagers around through their average day. It shows the group constantly abusing drugs and alcohol, stealing, doing violent acts to others and vandalizing.  It also shows their lack of concern towards sex and STDs.  The movie was an independent film directed by Larry Clark was released in 1995.  At this time the AIDS and HIV epidemic were at its peak making the movie very confrontational.

The plot of the movie was mainly focused one a girl named Jenny played Chloe Sevigny.  Jenny goes to the doctor with her friend Ruby to get tested for STDs. After the results came back Ruby’s test came up negative while Jenny’s test comes up positive.  This had been a complete surprise to Jenny because she had only been with one person in her life, Telly (Leo Fitzpatrick)

When leaving the doctor Jenny become to get very upset and tries to find Telly.  She searched all day for him, looking at the park and a nightclub called NASA.  While at the club she was given a pill from a friend, which turns out to be a depressant that made her very woozy and tired.  She makes her way back to another house party where she finds Tully have sex with another girl.

After she falls asleep on the couch, Casper, a friend of Telly’s begins to rape her passing on the STD to him.  The movie closes with Telly speaking about how he could not live without sex and with images of junkies in the streets of New York.

This movie shows the ugly truth of an average day of inner city teenagers living in New York City.  I would defiantly recommend this movie to anyone; it depicts and shows the mindset of KIDS and the realism of the HIV virus and how quickly it can spread.

-Carl Oberle