Sunday, 22 March 2009

Comment on Shane Smiths Blog

Kids:

After reading Shane Smiths comment on the Kids Film, it sent shivers down my spine to read that one of the characters had committed suicide.

To me this makes me view the film to be a little bit more immoral with the under age sex and drinking, imprudent hardly anybody was friendly with each other, unhealthy with all the drugs and smoking especially the part where the mum was breast feeding her baby and smoking at the same time, and dangerous, the unsettling scene where the gang had beaten up the boy at the skating park. The worst part was when someone struck him with the skateboard.

As well as it being distasteful, it makes me think to myself what kind of person would want to direct a film about underage sex, drugs and the main character getting a buzz from sleeping with virgins, did he have a unhappy childhood and did he grow up surrounded by any of these.



Was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma (1943), graduated from Central High school in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Attended Layton School of Art in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Studied under Walter Sheffer and Gerard Bakker. As well as directing the film Kids, he also had a photographic body of work, including the books Tulsa (1971), Teenage Lust (1982), and Perfect Childhood (1992).


Apart from getting into and argument in a restaurant where had got into a fight, in contrast, he influenced many filmmakers and film from his book Tulsa.
Not a man I would be start struck to meet.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0164187/bio

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