Korine was a precocious eighteen-year-old when he wrote the taut and unflinching screenplay for Larry Clark’s still controversial semi-documentary about destructive New York City youth driven by unfettered hedonism and a quenchless thirst for drugs, skateboarding and spontaneous sex. Together Korine and Clark created a dark, alarming and deeply compelling cautionary tale about youth whose moral compass has gone fatally awry, drifting in a narcissistic and lonely fog, naïve to the world around them, and dangerously glib about the grave dangers of love in the age of AIDS.