If pedophiles made films for pedophiles . . .

I assume you've seen Larry Clark's other films Bully and Teenage Caveman!? Like I've said many times before Ken Park is absoilutely pornographic!

Well said. I think he has some sort of sick Fetish with this stuff where since he is making movies he has the chance to take advantage to see this stuff in real life legally without having to lure little boys to his house. Kind of like how some directors put nudity in film to get to see free boobie shots.

Imagine how it must be to be actually their with them filming this stuff and how the actors have to go thru so much. I'm sure if you read about these films in the making that their are some upsetting situations and wierd stuff. I mean see the interviews about the Mark Folleye kids and how they say he was a wierdo who seemed like a possible kiddy liker.

I think the sexual scenes in this film are far from pornographic. the majority of them made me want to turn my head in disgust. not in the "OMG how indecent I'm so disgusted I'm writing my congressman" sort of way, but more in the "how tragic that this is the only way these people know how to connect with other humans". I'll still admit this is his most gratuitous and sensationalized of all his films, but someone would have to have psychological complexes even more disturbing than pedophilia to find this film erotic.

supposedly the script of this film was based on stories kids had told him at the local skate park in Visalia, CA where the movie was filmed, and where I grew up and still live. this movie is an amazing portrait of the side of this town, and america as a whole, that most don't want to admit exists. it should have been less gratuitous, but for the sake of the story, not censorship, and after watching wassup rockers tonight it seems clark has finally learned his lesson in that respect.

how can you be a "kiddy fiddler" when you're portraing people of legal age? i think ken park is a good movie if it wasn't for the graphic sex scenes. there's no point in having them there because there is already porno available if you want to watch people having sex. especially the last 3-way scene was just stupid. it didnt add anything to the movie at all. even though i dont think that larry clark is a peadophile (i just think he knows that controversy means money) i have to admit though, "ken park", "kids" etc. there is a lot of half naked boys in larry clarks movies...

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To the user OPENSTORAGE : What a remarkable display of ignorance, prejudice and sexual repression representative of the worst excesses of christerdom! Ken Parks is an honest story of lower class teenagers and their problems and how they deal with them. Most sex scenes were actually tender and tasteful ( the mom and best friend, as well as the thresome at the end).
You clearly have no idea of what paedophilia is, so let me educate you: p. is a mental afliction that manifests itself in sexual desire for PREPUBISCENT children. I´m sure you´ve watched K.P. often and avidly enough to notice that no such thing took place.
If I´m to hazard a guess, you´re a staunch American Republican, and you´ve watched Ken P. at least five times, each time reaching a climax ... of righteous outrage! Am I right?

I thought the sex scenes were great; but they pretty much relegated the film to the genre of "trash exploitation". (SPOILER) It was the murder of the grandparents that disturbed me. That scene was so off.

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It's a movie, people! It's not, nor is it meant to be, real life!