Amazon.com video review:
Larry Clark's controversial film about New York City
adolescents walking the AIDS tightrope is also an unblinking look at
the dehumanizing rituals of growing up. But it really doesn't add up
to more than the sum of its various shocks--virgin busting,
skinny-dipping, male callousness--overlayed with middle-class
disapproval. Clark is hectoring us for cutting kids loose at a
terrible time in modern American history, but so are a lot of other
people, who also offer alternatives and ideas. The film does nothing
to push us toward new thoughts, new solutions, new dreams. It is more
like a window onto our worst fantasies about what our children are
doing out there on the streets. The DVD release contains optional
full-screen and widescreen presentations. --Tom Keogh
