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Henry Louis Gates Jr. describes returning to Africa 25 years after his first visit: He is stunned by the squalor.
Flem rises from rural squalor, getting a job as a clerk at Varner's store in Frenchman's Bend, then taking over the store, then moving to the town of Jefferson.
On the negative side, critics say it "rolls in sleaze and squalor like a mangy dog on steaming roadkill" (Rod Dreher, the New York Post ). On the positive side, Janet Maslin praises Clark for the way he manages to create "bad times with a wicked way of looking good" (the New York Times ). (This fan site is packed with video stills from the film; find out more about director Larry Clark at alt.culture.)
Many of these babies grow up in squalor and themselves become dependent denizens of the welfare culture.
The nearly unrelieved squalor of this career goes side by side with a self-consciously decadent and degenerate lifestyle.