The Living End (1992)
Directed by Gregg Araki
Two HIV-positive young men — a semi-employed film critic and a hot hustler — tear off on a cross-country crime spree.
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What critics compared The Living End to
Aesthetically and tonally, Bones fits somewhere between John McNaughton’s Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer and Gregg Araki’s nihilistic road flick The Living End .
Araki (The Living End, The Doom Generation) could have gone the usual brutal, oppressive route but instead finds an astonishingly beautiful center to his film, focusing on tender moments of re-discovery and re-direction rather than on pain and defeat.
Gregg Araki (who made The Living End) has grown out of his youthful desire to shock for shock's sake.
And yet, Araki, who made such thematically intense and sexually graphic films as "The Living End," "Totally F***ed Up" and "The Doom Generation," ratchets things even more acutely than those directors.
Since making a small splash with 1992's "The Living End," independent filmmaker Araki has continued to turn out fringe films with extreme subject matter to diminishing results.