I didn't go into this expecting much, but found it to be excellent. Perhaps the best and most appropriate use of the "found footage" style I've ever seen. I also have to mention the pitch perfect casting and performance of the main character. I've known and seen people just like this and I can't even begin to describe how accurate a portrayal it is.
Whether you love the films of Larry Clark or you just really hate the youth of America, I can't recommend this enough.
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I loved it. It really is a pretty good film.
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I thought Kelly was a hottie,i love that scene were shes shaking her ass near that cake,i would of ate that cake haha
shareI went into this not knowing what to expect and, while the characters aren't necessarily likeable, they are accurate portrayals of modern youth and society in the U.S. based on the Twitter and Facebook users who believe every aspect of their lives is worth filming.
I cannot believe the incredibly low rating this has on IMDb, which proves time and time again how ratings on this site are entirely useless anymore due to how many people are allowed to sign up for the first time and purposely lowly rate multiple films, while those same shills are up-rating useless films like World War Z (which is not accurately based in any way on "World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War" by Max Brooks or his other zombie-based novels).
If you want a better site to see ratings, since you actually get to see reviews from critics counted, then I suggest seeing the scores for this on rotten tomatoes:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/king_kelly/
75% there versus 4.8 here on IMDb.
Good call out there dude, I quite agree.
This film is kinda controversial due to... everything in it...but you have to have more than two brain cells rubbing together to appreciate for anything more than pre-teen child pornography, and if you feel aroused by this movie, you need to put the bag back on your head and get back in line for extermination.
The characters are intentionally dislikable, whether it be the vacuous vapidity and ignorance of the star, through the last teenage boys you'd want anyone you know hanging with (not because they're dealers or users just because they're all *beep* through family dirtbags from hell (sorry), down all the way to the hypercriminality of a State Trooper (Kelly's biggest fan) who trolls her strip site, there are no words to adequately summarise these beautifully realised characters.
What absolutely enraptured me was the experimental use of audio, looping sections in and out, appearing when they do to juxtapose something entirely different from the original concept. Pushing that increasingly more hectic headspace lends you a real-time sense of a real night of rampage on drugs.
It is a modern masterpiece of style (perhaps over content, but the film isn't meant to be a manual - it's supposed to be hitching a wild ride with a front row seat + the added protection of screen between it and you) which has been made to antagonise, from the uncomfortable strip show start onwards, it sketchily draws stereotypes/tropes of obnoxious behaviour from the real world around you. Be it youtube, Facebook , snapchat, vine, we live in a culture of immediacy with little contemplation of consequence under the rule of the rampant id. The sense of entitlement Kelly possesses is only in equal measure to her egotism and narcissism, things that US Culture tends to exhault constantly throughout all its media channels 24/7 leading to this expectation of fame and money, with reality TV and the inherent transitory nature of such celebrity.
You could point fingers at people like the 24Hour media ,the Kardashians, or Big Brother or any convolution hybrid imaginable, you'll still have your oar in the barrel stirring the same *beep* - and this is the same *beep* barrel from which young adults kids alike are learning adulthood, morality and ethics. They don't , however, have the power to retain this information, which is perhaps a straw one can cling to for the future.
This should be considered for study in high school or college.