I remember my freshman English class talked about this movie for a month straight before I finally saw it. Outside from the scene of the breh getting jumped and attacked with the skateboard, I was pretty desensitized to everything else. In fact I found the first 20 minutes of the film funny actually. To me and how I grew up, it was pretty accurate (outside of AIDS) so there wasn't much of a shock factor. Hell, I knew a breh that acted a lot like Harold in the film. Thankfully, he's still living.
I swear the girl in the opening scene with Telly went on to do porn . Face looked too familiar .
I've seen all of Larry Clark's films and Ken Park is still the most shocking of all of them however. Remember having to order it from Canada because it was banned for a while in the U.S.