"Kids"

A few days ago, I decided to watch the movie “Kids” for the ENC 1102 Project 2 on Rogerian Argument because I feel that this movie involves a lot of controversial issues. This movie came out in July 1995, rated NC-17, about one hour and 30 minutes long, is rated B+ by the critics, it is drama genre, and was directed by Larry Clark, who also directed “Wassup Rockers” (2006), “Destricted” (2005), and others. Well this movie is about a 17 year old skateboarder named Telly, who lives only to get laid. Telly lives in a community with poverty and bad parenting, which makes him do whatever he wants. With no one watching over him, he goes around deflowering 14 year old girls just for pleasure. Him and his friend Casper walk around New York and steal from stores buy and smoke weed with their other buddies and even beat up some random guy with their skateboards just because the guy got in Casper’s way. While all this is going on, one of the girls that Telly slept with in the past, name Jennie, went and got tested for HIV and her results came out positive. Jennie goes looking for Telly the whole movie to tell him and also to stop him from being able to pass it to someone else. Jennie ends up going to a club that Telly was suppose to go to and takes some pills from her friend and starts to feel out of it. At this time Telly was sweet talking to another girl that he wants to get with and goes to his friend’s party with her. At that party, everyone is underage drinking and even 10 years old are smoking weed on the couch. Once Jennie gets to the party she finds Telly having unprotected sex with a girl. Jennie ends up passing out on the couch and Casper ends up raping her. By the end of the movie five people end up HIV positive with only one person knowing it.

This movie can have a very strong message because it shows controversial issues that are still happening in America, such as, bad parenting, living with HIV, rape, underage drinking, and taking drugs. Some people think this movie is too strong but I believe that the truth should never be sugar coated.