(Harmony Korine/2012/USA)
You know those
young, gaudy, reckless American hedonist students that spend their Easter
holidays in an alcohol and drug binged haze of moronic hollering and casual
sex? Harmony Korine made a film about those idiots but couldn’t sustain the
narrative long enough before having to weld it to some bullshit about white
gangster rappers. The whole film is an exercise in glitzy surface cool in an
effort to make some sub textual comment on American youth culture but it gets
tired and tiring very, very quickly. Outside of Kids, which he wrote and is
brilliant, I haven’t seen any other Harmony Korine films but am aware he’s
lauded in various circles. If this is what he’s amounted to in the near 20
years since writing Kids I won’t be rushing to fill in the gaps.
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