History Film / KenPark

''Ken Park'' is a controversial 2002 American/Netherlandic/French drama film directed by Larry Clark. It is his fifth film, after ''Film/{{Kids}}'', ''Another Day in Paradise'', ''Film/{{Bully}}'' and ''Teenage Caveman'', and his first to be written by Creator/HarmonyKorine since ''Kids''.

* EroticAsphyxiation: Tate ''again''. Probably the most infamous scene in the film.

%%* StartsWithASuicide

* {{Kwyjibo}}: Tate's granddad tries to pawn off "sipi" as a bone in the hip, serving only to make him angrier.

** [[BrowsHeldHigh It means "copy" in Tagalog.]]

* AbusiveParents: Claude and Peaches' fathers.
* EmoTeen: Tate

** ADateWithRosiePalms

* FanDisservice
* TheFundamentalist: Peaches' dad.
* HyperlinkStory: Attempted and failed miserably.
* {{Jerkass}}: Tate ''yet again''.
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: Shawn and Peaches' dad.]]

* MaleFrontalNudity: Tons of it.
* ParentalIncest: [[spoiler:Again, Claude and Peaches' fathers.]]

* ShaggyDogStory: The whole thing is completely pointless.
* StartsWithASuicide

* TeensAreMonsters

* 4: Peaches (Tiffany Limos) has a [[TheFundamentalist hyper-religious]] father who goes ballistic when he catches her about to have sex with a boy.]

* 1: 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, [[spoiler:but who secretly dreams of performing oral sex on him.]]
* 2: Tate (James Ransone) lives with his grandparents but hates them and constantly verbally abuses them. He is a necrophiliac who [[EroticAsphyxiation asphyxiates himself for sexual pleasure]] [[spoiler:and eventually stabs his grandparents and gets an erection from it.]]

* 4: Peaches (Tiffany Limos) has a [[TheFundamentalist hyper-religious]] father who goes ballistic when he catches her about to have sex with a boy [[spoiler:and marries her.]]

'''''Ken Park''''' is a controversial 2002 American/Netherlandic/French drama film directed by Larry Clark. It is his fifth film, after ''Film/{{Kids}}'', ''Another Day in Paradise'', ''Film/{{Bully}}'' and ''Teenage Caveman'', and his first to be written by Creator/HarmonyKorine since ''Kids''.

* [[spoiler: KarmaHoudini: Shawn and Peaches' dad.]]

* [[spoiler:ParentalIncest: Again, Claude and Peaches' fathers.]]

* 1: 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, [[spoiler: but who secretly dreams of performing oral sex on him.]]
* 2: Tate (James Ransone) lives with his grandparents but hates them and constantly verbally abuses them. He is a necrophiliac who [[EroticAsphyxiation asphyxiates himself for sexual pleasure]] [[spoiler: and eventually stabs his grandparents and gets an erection from it.]]

* 4: Peaches (Tiffany Limos) has a [[TheFundamentalist hyper-religious]] father who goes ballistic when he catches her about to have sex with a boy [[spoiler: and marries her.]]

* [[spoiler: ParentalIncest: Again, Claude and Peaches' fathers.]]
* RandomEventsPlot: 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 kind knew him from school.

* WretchedHive: Under a thin veneer of small town Americana.
--> Oancitizen "Is this town built on a Hellmouth?"

'''''Ken Park''''' is a controversial 2002 American/Netherlandic/French drama film directed by Larry Clark. It is his fifth film, after ''Film/{{Kids}}'', ''Another Day in Paradise'', ''Film/{{Bully}}'' and ''Teenage Caveman'', and his first to be written by Creator/HarmonyKorine since ''Kids''

* 5: The title character, Ken Park, commits suicide in the opening.

* TeensAreMonsters: And how!

* WretchedHive: Under a thin veneer of small town Americana. Pretty much everyone is a CompleteMonster.

'''''Ken Park''''' is a controversial 2002 American/Netherlandic/French drama film directed by Larry Clark. It is his fifth film, after ''Film/{{Kids}}'', ''Another Day in Paradise'', ''Film/{{Bully}}'' and ''Teenage Caveman'', and his first to be written by Creator/HarmonyKorine since ''{{Kids}}''

'''''Ken Park''''' is a controversial 2002 American/Netherlandic/French drama film directed by Larry Clark. It is his fifth film, after ''Film/{{Kids}}'', ''Another Day in Paradise'', ''Film/{{Bully}}'' and ''Teenage Caveman''.

'''''Ken Park''''' is a controversial 2002 American/Netherlandic/French drama film directed by Larry Clark. It is his fifth film, after ''{{Kids}}'', ''Another Day in Paradise'', ''Film/{{Bully}}'' and ''Teenage Caveman''.

* ATankardOfMooseUrine: Possibly what the director was trying to invoke, since there's a scene of a man drinking beer and urinating at the same time.

* [[spoiler: KarmaHoudini: Shawn, Tate and Peaches' dad.]]

* [[BannedInChina Banned in Australia]]: As one of the most recent films to be banned there, it's the one banned there that's generated the most controversy over its ban; a protest screening was held but was shut down by the police.

* HeyItsThatGuy: Man, [[TheWire 'Ziggy' Sobotka]] became an even bigger jerk after jail.
** And he seemed like such a [[GenerationKill nice]] [[IncrediblyLamePun person.]]
* HotMom: Maeve Quinlan, seriously. The film's most-famous and downloaded nude scene.

* SuicideSmiler: Ken Park.

* BannedInChina: It's banned in Australia. As one of the most recent films to be banned there, it's the one banned there that's generated the most controversy over its ban; a protest screening was held but was shut down by the police.

** And he seemed like such a [[GenerationKill nice]] [[IncrediblyLamePun Person.]]

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