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The nearly unrelieved squalor of this career goes side by side with a self-consciously decadent and degenerate lifestyle.
An Indian doctor/author describes the impossibility of practicing medicine in India--too much squalor, too few supplies, and 25,000 cases of rabies a year.
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.)
There is squalor aplenty.
Henry Louis Gates Jr. describes returning to Africa 25 years after his first visit: He is stunned by the squalor.