What they don't want you to know... about Kids (1995)

We Were Once Kids (2021)

Hello everyone, today I bring you here an amazing documentary about the protagonists of the tough movie, Kids (1995).

It tells the story of the young people from New York who made Kids possible.

First of all, let's get everything straight, Larry Clark was the director and Harmony Korine was the one in charge to do the script, then, the kids.

Appartently seems like if Kids were a movie focused on preventing the kind of actions depicted, but, after all, it was just a director with money to spend, looking for a poor cast to take advantage of, together with a depraved script made by a 19 years old guy.

The young gang was a group of teenagers without a home, some living alone on the streets, doing drugs, with broken families, but each one of them had something else in common, they shared the same passion, skateboarding.

This documentary makes a deep approach to this heartbreaking story of how the protagonists ended up. The movie was a complete success back in its days.

The director had a budget of 1,5 million dollars, a money that he used to get closer to this skateboarding friends, by buying them drugs and making parties. The filming was a complete dissaster as some of the protagonists relate, since everyone was high and stoned, much of the scenes were very natural at parts, since they were smoking and filming non stop. The movie grossed $20,4 millions and the cast just received the small payment of $1000 (which was a big amount for these poor teenagers, who weren't even 18 years old).

Since it got this amazing success, Larry Clark dissapeard from the map, while he was still in touch with Harmony Korine, about the cast, some of them, leapt to a brief and toxic fame, and the others were just slowly falling into oblivion.

Harmony Korine at his early age of 19 was the one who made that crazy script for Kids. Harmony also leapt to fame after that, and then he made more and more movies, more crazy stuff, a lot of disgusting content, which is not for everyone. Some of his pieces are considered as total classics, like Gummo, but there is something too gross, which makes me hate some of the ideas he develops, like making fun of retarded people or other kind of diseaes...

All in all, if you feel curious about this documentary, I would encourage you to watch Kids first, then you will be able to see the documentary through other eyes.