Can I just say I fucking hate that Larry Clarke film? It relishes and delights in degradation of teenagers, valourises their worst impulses. As someone who works with that age group, Teens are funny, weird, stupid, selfish, idiotic but overall much more interesting than an ageing pedos miseryporn vision. It's a deeply, deeply reactionary vision. It's just a fucking Daily Mail front page in hipster clothing.
i still think it's an excellent film, for the way it's shot, the acting, the overall feel and what its saying.
although it's not really something i would watch now, and i'm far more ambivalent now about larry clark as an artist, than i was as a teenager.. it's definitely not daily mail tho, cos on the level of aesthetics, there's something else going on, or at least something else is being reached for. there's so many odd moments in it, where you get some strange insight into the characters, the weird awkward bits that are left in.
yes, you could definitely say it's exploitative, but there's definitely something else there (for me)..
have you seen his tulsa photo book? that's very good.