on Monday, July 19th, Surly said

Larry Clark bien est connu pour ses flims dérangeants et crus. Je n'étais prèsque pas capable de rester tranquil et assis en regardant Bully. Mais je me pose des questions par rapport à la nécessité de toute cette réalité cinématique. Est-ce qu'on se sent enrichi ou dégradé après un tel film. Moi, je me sentais sale. Mais suis-je peut-être trop sensible. Voici son site (le site le plus laid au monde, en passant): http://www.larryclarkofficialwebsite.com/

on Tuesday, July 20th, Larry Clark said

(Interview excerpt)

Ken Park is about the parents using their children to fulfill up their own emotional emptiness. It's in the most inappropriate and selfish way. At the end of the day the kids don't get anything from the adults that they need. So consequently they only have each other.

When the whole world is on your head and you can't relate at all to the adults and you only have your friends, which saves you and keeps you from killing yourself. That was my idea of the end of Ken Park [with the three way sex scene between the kids]. Most films that I see when kids are so devastated and they have no hope and they're just fucked. I wanted to show that they kids are ok and have each other. They have sex in the purest, most innocent and most appropriate way as kind of a redemption. Uplifting scene where you find that everything is going to be okay. Its one thing to get an idea and another way to pull it off. But I think we pulled it off. Also I was told that if you show certain things it's automatically pornography and I said “No its not.” Its part of life and it makes sense because it's in the context of the story. I had some things I wanted to prove and one of them was that it's not pornography. People tell me that they find the last scene uplifting and that's its not dirty. The say the dirty scene is where Peaches' father kisses her. The inappropriate things are what some of the parents do.