I have a little boy, but it's no big deal-my parents take care of him." "Kids" takes place in Manhattan and "Bully" in south Florida but these kids occupy essentially the same lives, have the same parents, share the same futures. One of Bobby's sins, which I neglected to mention, is that he is still in high school and plans to go to college the others live with fast-food jobs and handouts from parents, and Ali has a revealing line: "I was married once, for about three weeks. In "Kids" (1995) and in this film, the adult society has abandoned these characters-done little to educate or challenge them, or to create a world in which they have purpose. He wants to depict a youth culture without resources, and to show how a crowd is capable of actions its members would never commit on their own. Once the body is disposed of, the arguments begin almost immediately: Everybody had a hand in the assault, but nobody actually can be said to have delivered the fatal blow, and we watch incredulously as these kids cave in to guilt, remorse, grief, blaming one another, and the irresistible impulse to tell outsiders what happened.Ĭlark's purpose in the film is twofold. The conspirators vaguely think his family is "Mafia," although his qualifications come into question when he worries that car horns will bother the neighbors eventually we get the priceless line, "The hit man needs a ride." The details of the murder are observed unblinkingly in a scene of harrowing, gruesome sadness. The kids decide they don't know enough to do it themselves, and need to hire a "hit man." This turns out to be Leo Fitzpatrick (from Clark's powerful first film, " Kids"), who is essentially a kid himself. At one point, Lisa simply says, "I want him dead." It's chilling, the way the murder is planned so heedlessly. A consensus begins to form that Bobby deserves to be killed. The leadership in this circle shifts according to who has a strongly held opinion the others drift into line. It watches as they drift from coffee shops to malls to one another's cars and bedrooms, engaged in an endless loop of speculation about the only subject available to them, their lives.
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The movie establishes these kids in a larger circle of friends, including the tall, strong and essentially nice Donny ( Michael Pitt), the anything-goes Heather ( Kelli Garner), and Derek ( Daniel Franzese), along for the ride. He is, we sense, evil to the core something has gone very wrong in his life, and maybe it was engendered by the authoritarian style of his father, who likes to dominate people under the guise of only doing what's right for them. He also likes to watch Marty and Lisa in the back seat. Marty and Bobby meet Ali and Lisa ( Bijou Phillips and Rachel Miner).
Bobby may be certainly his relationship with Bobby is sublimated S/M. In a key scene, Bobby takes him to a gay strip club and makes him dance on the stage while patrons stuff bills into his shorts. For as long as Marty can remember, Bobby has picked on him, and we see it as a daily ordeal: The ear twisting, the hard punches, the peremptory orders ("Get back in the car now!"), the demands that he go where he doesn't want to go and do what he doesn't want to do. We meet Marty Puccio ( Brad Renfro) and Bobby Kent ( Nick Stahl). Their parents are not bad and, for the most part, not blamed their children live in a world they do not understand or, in some cases, even see. Their characters bleed with banality and stupid, doped reasoning. The movie is brilliantly and courageously well-acted by its young cast it's one of those movies so perceptive and wounding that there's no place for the actors to hide, no cop out they can exercise. They are stupid by choice, not necessity they have fallen into a slacker subculture that involves leading their lives in a void that can be filled only by booze, drugs, sex, and the endless, aimless analysis of their pathetic emptiness. There is no doubt a parallel universe in this same suburb, filled with happy, creative, intelligent people and endless opportunities-there always is-but these kids are off that map. Clark moved to the Hollywood, Fla., suburb where the actual murder took place, and sees it as a sterile expanse of Identikit homes, strip malls and boredom, where the kids drift from video arcades to fast food hangouts, and a car means freedom.
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