Kids

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I just saw "Kids" by Larry Clarke (1995) in German tv. Is "the" American 
youth so decadent as shown in this film? Instead of 
"sex'n'drugs'n'rock'n'roll" aids, crack and tekkno. Sometimes the figures of 
the film reminded me at the "actors" in Andy Warhol's "factory". The 
difference is: they are not longer stars for fifteen minutes, perhaps for two 
or three...seconds. No transcendence, no ideas, no PynchonLand, only the dark 
side of the Zero Tolerance Zone of Mr. Guiliani. Now he has got cancer, and I 
doubt that some of the kids in that film are still alive.  And another thing: 
it is not a critical film it is perhaps really just only a film for 
paedophils. 
Is our western aesthetics - in film, literature, painting - completely 
wrotten? Has got lit-crit or film-crit an anachronism in the meantime?
Sceptical, kwp