
Fish Tank
2009

Representation Score
Excellent
2003
Not RatedDirector
Larry Clark, Edward Lachman
Runtime
97 minutes
Average Rating
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Ken Park reimagines the traditional American coming-of-age story by breaking down gender roles and criticizing the stability of Western social and religious institutions. However, its impact is limited by a lack of diverse racial representation and a focus on an Anglo-Saxon cast. The film offers a fragmented look at identity through a chaotic exploration of social and sexual ability to act.
Category Breakdown
The film focuses on characters exploring their sexuality and identity in ways that go beyond typical heterosexual milestones. It highlights the importance of non-traditional sexual behaviors and identity exploration.
The movie breaks down traditional gender roles, challenging the usual depiction of strong male leaders and nurturing females. It shows masculinity through vulnerability and anger, while women take active roles in the story.
The cast lacks a non-white or non-Anglo-Saxon majority. The narrative focuses on class-based friction and individual identity rather than explicit racial the way different parts of someone's identity overlap.
The film portrays Western institutions such as the nuclear family and religion as dysfunctional or oppressive. It emphasizes secular, nihilistic viewpoints over singular moralities.
The film does not significantly represent physical or neurodivergent disabilities. Psychological issues are used to create an atmosphere but do not explore the ability to act of those with disabilities.
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Limited or Absent
Official Synopsis
Teen skater Ken Park (nicknamed Krap Nek; his name spelled and pronounced backward) kills himself at a Visalia skate park; his death bookends the lives of four other young people who knew him: Shawn, the most conventional; Tate brims with psychotic rage; Claude is habitually harassed by his brutish father and coddled, rather uncomfortably, by his enormously pregnant mother; and Peaches looks after her devoutly religious father, but yearns for freedom. They're all rather tight, or so they claim.

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