Are You Kidding?
2018; Intellect; Volume: 16; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1386/fiin.16.3.16_1
ISSN2040-3801
Autores Tópico(s)Innovations in Educational Methods
ResumoIt is no exaggeration to claim that the 23 years since the release of Kids have witnessed an ongoing obsession with children and sex.As James Kincaid (1994Kincaid ( , 2000) ) has so expertly shown, this is nothing new and, in many ways, this is the foundation of recent culture.The excessive, simultaneous media worship and scorn, in the mid-1990s, of Harmony Korine, the 21-year-old screenwriter of Kids (directed by Larry Clark, 1995), indicated that Korine was powerfully unearthing divisive issues of the period concerning youth culture and boundaries.In an interview with The Guardian in June 2015, in preparation for the twentieth anniversary screening, Korine claimed that there was no way the film could be made today (Locker 2015).Too many people now would see the film as far too dangerous, it just would never get off the ground, but from a comparative perspective it is beneficial to explore the film across time.The American teen obsession with sex and weed is depleting.Teen birth rates hit a record low in 2017, with Time reporting in 2018 a drop in American students claiming they have had sexual intercourse from 47 per cent in 2005 to 41 per cent in 2015 (Sifferlin 2018).For Korine the film just depicted normality, and was far less contrived than ordinary filmmaking, with Clark not having directed before and the actors not having acted.Given the depiction of sex and drugs, the film received an NC-17 rating.Miramax had paid $3.5 million to distribute the film worldwide, but because they were owned by the Walt Disney Company they could not release it, so they ended up starting a new company to release the now un-rated film.The film created moral panic, with Rita Kempley
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