KIDS

KIDS

Rhetorical Analysis

by Jane Murphy

A Film by Larry Clark

Trailer

An insight into the lives of promiscuous teenagers during the HIV/AIDS epidemic of New York City in the 1990's

Exigence

Reason for communicating

• heterosexual teens and young adults are being affected the most
• poor sex education system
• characters don't understand the basic concept of safe sex
• exposing the life of the American teenager to parents

Pathos

emotional appeal of the piece

Kairos

Why now?

• strong throughout the entire film
• peer pressure
• anger, lust, disappointment, depression and despondency
• feeling "in the moment with the characters"
• easily relatable

• shot during the worst of the HIV/AIDS epidemtic of poverty stricken communities
• 90's grunge
• location, location, location
• slang and terminology used by the characters