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Ken Park
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Ken Park is a controversial 2002 American-Dutch-French drama film directed by Larry Clark. It is his fifth film, after Kids, Another Day in Paradise, Bully and Teenage Caveman, and his first to be written by Harmony Korine since Kids.The film consists of four storylines about four teenagers living in the same neighborhood: Claude (Stephen Jasso) is a skateboarder with an ignorant pregnant mother and a brutish father who constantly abuses him due to not thinking him manly enough. Tate (James Ransone) lives with his grandparents but hates them and constantly verbally abuses them. He is a necrophiliac who asphyxiates himself for sexual pleasure. Shawn (James Bullard) is having an affair with his girlfriend's mother and dreams of getting them both in bed at the same time. Peaches (Tiffany Limos) has a hyper-religious father who goes ballistic when he catches her about to have sex with a boy.The title character, Ken Park, commits suicide in the opening. | |
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Erotic Asphyxiation | |
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Erotic Asphyxiation: Tate does this...in VERY graphic detail. Probably the most infamous scene in the film. | |
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I Love the Dead | |
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I Love the Dead: Implied with Tate, who gets an erection after stabbing his grandparents to death. | |
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Crapsack World | |
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Crapsack World: If the main characters and their families are representative of Valencia, California as a whole, then something is seriously wrong with that town. | |
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Teens Are Monsters | |
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Teens Are Monsters: Played straight with Tate; zig-zagged with Shawn; inverted with everyone else, who are victims of mentally ill and/or abusive parents. | |
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Wretched Hive | |
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Wretched Hive: Under a thin veneer of small-town Americana. | |
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Male Frontal Nudity | |
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Male Frontal Nudity: Tons of it, and none of it is particularly appealing... | |
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Three-Way Sex | |
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Three-Way Sex: Peaches has this with Claude and Shawn near the end of the film. | |
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Parental Incest | |
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Parental Incest: Again, Claude's and Peaches's fathers (Claude's dad drunkenly attempts to give Claude a blowjob while he sleeps and Peaches's dad "marries" her near the end. | |
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A Family Affair | |
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A Family Affair: The teenager Shawn is sleeping with his girlfriend's mother behind her back and fantasizes about having a threeway with the two of them. Out of the four main characters, whose lives are rife with abuse and dysfunction, his situation is probably the least psychologically messed up. | |
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Starts with a Suicide | |
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Starts with a Suicide: The film opens with Ken Park shooting himself. | |
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Missing Mom | |
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Missing Mom: Peaches's mother died when Peaches was in grade school, and it's mentioned a few times in the film. | |
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The Reveal | |
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The Reveal: The end of the film shows that Ken Park committed suicide because he got a girl pregnant and she wanted to keep the baby. | |
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A Tankard of Moose Urine | |
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A Tankard of Moose Urine: Possibly what the director was trying to invoke since there's a scene of a man drinking beer and urinating at the same time. | |
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Dysfunction Junction | |
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Dysfunction Junction: When the kid that's cheating on his girlfriend with her married mother is the least messed up one of the cast, you know the characters have some serious issues. | |
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Villain Protagonist | |
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Villain Protagonist: Tate definitely cements himself as one, and one could argue that Shawn is one as well. | |
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Posthumous Character | |
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Posthumous Character: Subverted. The titular Ken Park has absolutely nothing to do with the stories, he was just someone the main characters knew. | |
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Euroshlock | |
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Euroshlock: Zig-Zagged. It's set in America, and the film's writer and director are from America, but it was produced by Kasander Film Company and Cinéa; which are from the Netherlands and France, respectively. | |
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Laser-Guided Karma | |
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Laser-Guided Karma: Tate gets arrested near the end of the film upon murdering his grandparents and three-legged dog. | |
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Random Events Plot | |
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Random Events Plot: Pretty much. None of the characters' stories have to do with Ken Park's suicide, and indeed the only link to Ken Park's story is that they all knew him from school. | |
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Scrabble Babble | |
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Scrabble Babble: Tate's granddad tries to pawn off "sipi" as a bone in the hip, serving only to make Tate rage. | |
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Karma Houdini | |
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Karma Houdini: Claude and Peaches's dads never get their comeuppance for their actions. | |
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Hyperlink Story | |
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Hyperlink Story: The film appears like it's trying to do this, but it doesn't work since the storylines don't ever involve the other characters and they never actually interact with each other until the end ( apart from Tate who gets arrested after murdering his grandparents). | |
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Extreme Doormat | |
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Extreme Doormat: Tate's grandparents, who fall victim to Tate's extremely abusive behavior while never actually doing anything about it. | |
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Abusive Parents | |
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Abusive Parents: Claude's and Peaches's fathers (the former sees Claude as nothing but a weak failure. The latter seems like a decent parent at first, until he catches Peaches about to have sex with a friend of hers). | |
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Fan Disservice | |
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Fan Disservice: On one hand, you got Tate's aforementioned asphyxiation scene along with Claude's dad trying to give his son a blowjob. In fact, most of the sex scenes in the film are made to appear as grotesque as possible, both intentionally and unintentionally. | |
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World of Jerkass | |
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World of Jerkass: Many of the characters in the film are loathsome in one way or another, namely all the parental figures (except Hannah's father), Tate, and even Shawn to some degree. | |
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Hate Sink | |
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Hate Sink: Tate, Peaches's dad, and Claude's dad are all utterly loathsome characters who deserve everything coming to them. | |
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Jerkass | |
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Jerkass: Almost everybody in the film. | |
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The Fundamentalist | |
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The Fundamentalist: Peaches's dad has very strong religious beliefs. Shown more clearly when he abuses Peaches after he viciously attacks her friend that she was about to have sex with. | |
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