Now this is a special movie, its a movie I really enjoyed watching while I was drunk when I was younger, And also this time I was kind of drunk while watching this movie.
Ken Park is what I would call a independent movie by Larry Clark which I have always been a fan of.
And the writer of this movie is another guy I really like Harmony Korine.
This movie opens up with a skater kid rolling down the streets listening to music, and going to the skate park. When he gets there he sets up a film camera and pulls out a gun, he looks into the camera, smiles and shots himself in the head.
This kid was Ken park(Adam Chubbuck). The camera zooms out and we hear the voice of another boy Shawn (James Bullard). Shawn is telling that Ken Park was a good friend of him and that his name backwards is Krap Nek and that he used to tease him about it. But he believed that this had nothing to do with his suicide.
And then there are some pictures of "Krap Nek" when he was young and Shawn is telling us a little about him. This is where the movie starts and it will tell us about the life of the friends of Ken park in the weeks before the suicide.
Shawn is also a skater kid, he is play fighting with his younger brother and wants him to say that he loves him. Shawn seems to be a normal teenager, he has a girlfriend Hannah (Shanie Calahan) but we will find out Shawn has a sexual relationship with Hannah`s mother Rhonda (Maeve Quinlan)
The next kid we meet is Claude (Stephen Jasso) which lives in a kind of white trash home. He in the yard with his father (Wade Williams) who is lifting weights. Claude`s father asks Claude if he wants to lift too, but Claude do not wants to. He likes more to skate, this is when his father gets angry and tells his son that he is ashamed of him the way he wears his pants and that he thinks he is a wimp.
Claude`s father seems to hate him, and later in the movie we start to understand that Claude`s father also seems to hate himself for being a bad father and a failure at his life.
The next kid we meet is a girl, her name is Peaches (Tiffany Limos) she is living alone with her very religious and over protective father (Julio Oscar Mechoso) the father`s wife and Peaches mother died when Peaches was young, and her father seems to be obsessed with his dead wife, going to her grave every day. Peaches is having sex with her boyfriend while her father is going to the graveyard to talk to his dead wife. When her father is going home sooner than Peaches was expecting and find the two having sex, he loses his temper and beats up Peaches boyfriend who is tied to the bed.
The last of the kids we will meet, is the young man Tate (James Ransone) Tate is the most fucked up of these friends. He lives with his grandparents (Patricia Place) and (Harrison Young).
The first we see of Tate is him sitting and doing some kind of "Work"?!?! He is writing names on pictures of starving africans it seems. Tate has a three legged dog called Legs which keeps barking, and Tate gets annoyed. When his grandmother comes in to Tate with a plate off cut up fruits Tate gets even more annoyed and tells her to get out of his room and that she acts like a "Fucking bitch" Legs keeps barking and Tate ties his mouth shut with a sock and tells the dog that he will tear off the dogs last front leg if he keeps barking. Tate gets more and more what I will call psychotic as the movie goes.
As I said this is a movie I always have really enjoyed, I have seen it many times, and will probably watch it many more times in my life.
I think its cool that Larry Clark uses mostly unknown actors in his movies, Larry Clark even has a very small acting part in the end of the movie.
There is allot of punk music and some hip hop in this movie, which is good because it is a independent teenage skater movie. Some of the music played is Lamar Vannoy preformed by the band Bouncing Souls, this song is the first and its playing while Ken Park is skating another song is Antennas by the punk band Rancid. And there is also a song What A Nigga Know by KMD. All this songs fits the movie very good.
The movie got allot of critics for its very graphical sex scenes, amongst other a threesome where you can basically see everything, and a mastrubation scene where the actor James Ransone jerks off until he blows his load. The movie has even been called "Child pornography" but in my eyes it is not that at all. The movie was giving the rating 18 years old
I give this movie an 8 out of 10.
Ken Park is what I would call a independent movie by Larry Clark which I have always been a fan of.
And the writer of this movie is another guy I really like Harmony Korine.
This movie opens up with a skater kid rolling down the streets listening to music, and going to the skate park. When he gets there he sets up a film camera and pulls out a gun, he looks into the camera, smiles and shots himself in the head.
This kid was Ken park(Adam Chubbuck). The camera zooms out and we hear the voice of another boy Shawn (James Bullard). Shawn is telling that Ken Park was a good friend of him and that his name backwards is Krap Nek and that he used to tease him about it. But he believed that this had nothing to do with his suicide.
And then there are some pictures of "Krap Nek" when he was young and Shawn is telling us a little about him. This is where the movie starts and it will tell us about the life of the friends of Ken park in the weeks before the suicide.
Shawn is also a skater kid, he is play fighting with his younger brother and wants him to say that he loves him. Shawn seems to be a normal teenager, he has a girlfriend Hannah (Shanie Calahan) but we will find out Shawn has a sexual relationship with Hannah`s mother Rhonda (Maeve Quinlan)
The next kid we meet is Claude (Stephen Jasso) which lives in a kind of white trash home. He in the yard with his father (Wade Williams) who is lifting weights. Claude`s father asks Claude if he wants to lift too, but Claude do not wants to. He likes more to skate, this is when his father gets angry and tells his son that he is ashamed of him the way he wears his pants and that he thinks he is a wimp.
Claude`s father seems to hate him, and later in the movie we start to understand that Claude`s father also seems to hate himself for being a bad father and a failure at his life.
The next kid we meet is a girl, her name is Peaches (Tiffany Limos) she is living alone with her very religious and over protective father (Julio Oscar Mechoso) the father`s wife and Peaches mother died when Peaches was young, and her father seems to be obsessed with his dead wife, going to her grave every day. Peaches is having sex with her boyfriend while her father is going to the graveyard to talk to his dead wife. When her father is going home sooner than Peaches was expecting and find the two having sex, he loses his temper and beats up Peaches boyfriend who is tied to the bed.
The last of the kids we will meet, is the young man Tate (James Ransone) Tate is the most fucked up of these friends. He lives with his grandparents (Patricia Place) and (Harrison Young).
The first we see of Tate is him sitting and doing some kind of "Work"?!?! He is writing names on pictures of starving africans it seems. Tate has a three legged dog called Legs which keeps barking, and Tate gets annoyed. When his grandmother comes in to Tate with a plate off cut up fruits Tate gets even more annoyed and tells her to get out of his room and that she acts like a "Fucking bitch" Legs keeps barking and Tate ties his mouth shut with a sock and tells the dog that he will tear off the dogs last front leg if he keeps barking. Tate gets more and more what I will call psychotic as the movie goes.
As I said this is a movie I always have really enjoyed, I have seen it many times, and will probably watch it many more times in my life.
I think its cool that Larry Clark uses mostly unknown actors in his movies, Larry Clark even has a very small acting part in the end of the movie.
There is allot of punk music and some hip hop in this movie, which is good because it is a independent teenage skater movie. Some of the music played is Lamar Vannoy preformed by the band Bouncing Souls, this song is the first and its playing while Ken Park is skating another song is Antennas by the punk band Rancid. And there is also a song What A Nigga Know by KMD. All this songs fits the movie very good.
The movie got allot of critics for its very graphical sex scenes, amongst other a threesome where you can basically see everything, and a mastrubation scene where the actor James Ransone jerks off until he blows his load. The movie has even been called "Child pornography" but in my eyes it is not that at all. The movie was giving the rating 18 years old
I give this movie an 8 out of 10.
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