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Ken Park
Directed by
Screenplay byHarmony Korine
Based onstories and journals by Larry Clark
Produced by
Starring
  • James Bullard
  • Stephen Jasso
  • Adam Chubbuck
Cinematography
Edited byAndrew Hafitz
Production
companies
Distributed by
  • Vitagraph Films (US)
  • A-Film Distribution (Netherlands)
  • Pan-Européenne (France)
  • August 31, 2002 (Telluride)
  • September 10, 2002 (Toronto)
  • April 3, 2003 (Netherlands)
  • October 8, 2003 (France)
93 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$1.3 million

Ken Park is a 2002 eroticdrama which revolves around the abusive and dysfunctional lives of several teenagers, set in the city of Visalia, California.[1] It was written by Harmony Korine, who based it on Larry Clark's journals and stories. The film was directed and shot by Clark and Edward Lachman. The film is an international co-production of the United States, the Netherlands, and France.

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Plot[edit]

The title character Ken Park (nicknamed 'Krap Nek': his name spelled and pronounced backward), is a teenager skateboarding across Visalia, California. He arrives at a skate park, where he casually sets up a camcorder, smiles, and shoots himself in the temple with a handgun. His death is used to bookend the film, which follows the lives of four other teenagers who knew him.

Shawn is the most stable of the four main characters. He is polite and caring. Throughout the story, he has an ongoing sexual relationship with his girlfriend's mother Rhonda, whom he tells that he fantasizes that he is with her when having sex with her daughter Hannah. He casually socializes with their family, the rest of whom are completely unaware of the affair.

Claude fends off physical and emotional abuse from his alcoholic father while he tries to take care of his neglectful pregnant mother, who never does anything to defend him. Claude's father detests him for not being masculine enough. However, after coming home drunk one night, he attempts to perform oral sex on Claude, which prompts the boy to run away from home.

Cyberlink powerdirector transition pack download. Peaches is a girl who lives alone with her obsessive and highly-religious father, who fixates on her as the innocent embodiment of her deceased mother. When he catches her having sex with her boyfriend Curtis – whom she has playfully tied to her bed – he beats the boy and savagely disciplines her, then forces her to participate in a quasi-incestuous wedding ritual with him.

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Tate is an unstable and sadistic adolescent living with his grandparents, whom he resents and frequently abuses verbally. He engages in autoerotic asphyxiation while masturbating to a video of a woman playing tennis. He eventually kills his grandparents, in retaliation for petty grievances. He finds that the act arouses him sexually. He records himself on his tape recorder so that the police will know how and why he did it, puts his grandfather's dentures in his mouth, lies naked in his bed, and falls asleep. He is later arrested.

The film cuts frequently between these subplots, with no overlap of characters or events until the end, when Shawn, Claude, and Peaches meet and have sex as a threesome. In their conversation afterward, they refer to an unnamed person they know who is now dead. The film returns briefly to Ken Park, who has impregnated his girlfriend. Arguing against aborting the pregnancy, she asks Ken rhetorically if he's glad his mother didn't abort him; Ken does not answer.

Cast[edit]

  • Tiffany Limos as Peaches
  • James Bullard as Shawn
  • Stephen Jasso as Claude
  • James Ransone as Tate
  • Adam Chubbuck as Ken Park
  • Maeve Quinlan as Rhonda
  • Bill Fagerbakke as Bob
  • Eddie Daniels as Shawn's mother
  • Seth Gray as Shawn's brother
  • Patricia Place as Tate's grandmother
  • Harrison Young as Tate's grandfather
  • Amanda Plummer as Claude's mother
  • Wade Williams as Claude's father
  • Julio Oscar Mechoso as Peaches' father
  • Zara McDowell as Zoe
  • Mike Apaletegui as Curtis
  • Richard Riehle as Murph
  • Larry Clark as Hot dog vendor

Production[edit]

Clark attempted to write the first script for Ken Park, basing it on personal experiences and people with whom he had grown up. Dissatisfied with his own draft, he hired Harmony Korine to pen the screenplay. Clark ultimately used most of Korine's script, but rewrote the ending.[citation needed] The film was given a $1.3 million budget. The arrangement was to film using digital video, but Clark and Lachman used 35mm film instead.[2][3]

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Distribution[edit]

Although it was sold for distribution to some 30 countries,[4] the film was not shown in the United Kingdom after director Larry Clark assaulted Hamish McAlpine, the head of the UK distributor for the film, Metro Tartan. Clark is alleged to have been angry over McAlpine's remarks about 9/11. Clark was arrested and spent several hours in custody, and McAlpine was left with a broken nose.[5][6] The film has not been released in the United States since its initial showing at the Telluride Film Festival in 2002. Clark says that this is because of the producer's failure to get copyright releases for the music used.[7] The film was banned in Australia due to its graphic sexual content and portrayals of underage sexual activity after it was refused a classification by the Australian Classification Board in 2003. A protest screening held in Sydney, hosted by film critic Margaret Pomeranz, was shut down by the police.

Critical reception[edit]

Review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reports a 46% approval rating based on 13 reviews.[8] Ed Gonzales of Slant Magazine noted some redeeming elements in an 'otherwise familiar Kids procedural' in which 'the parents are all monsters of some kind and there’s an excuse for every teenager’s bad behavior'.[9] Rob Gonsalves of eFilmCritic, wrote that the film 'is about people lost in a haze of contempt and despair, trying to wrest some love or relief out of the situation.'[10] Michael Rechtshaffen of The Hollywood Reporter described it as 'a ragingly controversial feature that makes it very tricky to distinguish between insightful and incite-ful.'[11] Todd McCarthy of Variety described it as 'Beautifully crafted but emotionally dispiriting and alienating in its insistence on spotlighting only the negative aspects of life'.[12] Lee Marshall of Screen Daily wrote that 'Clark, being Clark, pushes things a little too far; so a not entirely constructive tension is set up between the need to show and the desire to shock.'[13]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

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  1. ^What Culture#6; Ken Park (2001)
  2. ^Macnab, Geoffrey; Swart, Sharon (2013). FilmCraft: Producing(Ebook). Taylor & Francis. ISBN9781136071171. Retrieved 25 January 2016.
  3. ^'Ken Park (2002) Technical Specifications'. IMDB. Retrieved 25 January 2016.
  4. ^Police quiz critic after raid By Kirsty Needham, The Age, July 4, 2003. Accessed May 30, 2007
  5. ^Article in the BBC Collective
  6. ^'Too much verité..'The Observer. November 17, 2002. Retrieved October 20, 2015.
  7. ^'The Nerve Interview: Larry Clark'. Nerve. 2006-09-20. Archived from the original on 2013-12-27.
  8. ^'Ken Park (2002)'. Retrieved 3 October 2019.
  9. ^Gonzalez, Ed. 'Review: Ken Park'. Retrieved 2021-03-20.
  10. ^Gonsalves, Rob. 'Movie Review - Ken Park'. www.efilmcritic.com. Retrieved 2021-03-20.
  11. ^Ken Park (2002), retrieved 2021-03-20
  12. ^McCarthy, Todd (2002-09-06). 'Ken Park'. Variety. Retrieved 2021-03-20.
  13. ^Marshall, Lee (2002-09-06). 'Ken Park'. Screen Daily. Retrieved 2021-03-20.
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In New York, the image of violent young blacks was frightening, and in West Memphis, Ark., there was the scarcely less terrifying allegation that the defendants were members of a 'satanic cult.' Both prosecutions were based on confessions. Both convictions were overturned after others confessed and matched DNA evidence. Race was not the only factor; non-whites in New York were as horrified as whites at the violent and lawless behavior of the assailants.

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Our justice system presumes defendants are innocent until proven guilty. It also places extreme pressure on the police to make arrests leading to convictions — to 'solve' the crimes. The police officers knew, or should have known, that the confessions involved were extracted by psychological force (the Arkansas case was obtained from a young boy who was mentally retarded). If a heinous crime ends with a popular conviction, the system is satisfied. Nobody wants to hear contradictory evidence.

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