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The Subtext

posted 9 years ago by noisey-ninja
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I felt like at its core this film is a horror story for parents. It quite succinctly finds the the pulse of today's trashy youth culture and plunges you directly into the vein. A cautionary tale that is so proudly a-moral and unafraid to spew colorful vile truths of a post girls gone wild reality that many young people exist in. Brilliant work from one of my favorite story tellers in american cinema.

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They are trying to create dysentery in the ranks

[–] clockworkorange13 9 years ago

yeah it would be pretty scary to watch this movie if you had a teenage/early 20s daughter, thank god i dont

[–] Movie_Buff_Brad 9 years ago

Yeah, Korine is a real risk-taker to go after such a highly respected culture. Especially fifteen years after white rappers and spring break sluts became a cliche. Doesn't text have to be sub to be "subtext"?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2BKWx_0qK0

[–] lazarillo 9 years ago

"Kids" was a horror story for parents, and for that matter really paranoid and gullible parents.

Spring Break and trashy youth culture by now are a tedious cliche in movies. Korrine just used it as the basis to make a weird tonal, avante-garde film that relies more on visuals, music, and exaggerated but disjointed dialogue scenes then it does on plot and sending any kind "message" whether as text or subtext. People put down films for being style over substance, but when you take the most pathetic "substance" imaginable and complete stylize it like this, it actually results in something kind of interesting.

I think this movie partially makes up for his participation years back in that alarmist piece-of-sh!t "Kids". It's a much more interesting film really.

[–] benettfreeman 8 years ago

Yeah, I can appreciate all that. There was a certain nihilistic quality to it that made it interesting. But the story is way too far-fetched.