![]() His camera is like a loving scalpel carving away the facades of middle-class monotony to reveal the dark secrets smoldering beneath the surface. ![]() Yet, frighteningly, Larry Clark is able to pull off filming these morally antagonizing subjects with so much perception, light, and even humanity that he leaves the viewer stunned-stuck between laughter and disgust, horror and compassion, not knowing what we should feel or what we are. The film itself portrays so many “unshowable” taboos-a threesome between three adolescents, a teen who masturbates on camera while asphyxiating himself, a tough-love alcoholic father attempting to give his son a blowjob-that you are tempted to delegate the film to nothing more than a provocation film. ![]() We all know that the white-bread cookie-cutter suburban lifestyle has its own dirty secrets, but when his camera explores the limits of this seemingly serene and ubiquitous American lifestyle, Larry Clark gives us a horrifying yet touching glimpse of what happens behind finely paved driveways and cute lawns.
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