Synopsis
Prepare to visit a town you'd never want to call home.
Solomon and Tummler are two teenagers killing time in Xenia, Ohio, a small town that has never recovered from the tornado that ravaged the community in the 1970s.
1997 Directed by Harmony Korine
Solomon and Tummler are two teenagers killing time in Xenia, Ohio, a small town that has never recovered from the tornado that ravaged the community in the 1970s.
"My father worked the late shift as a bathroom attendant. My father was mugged on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. For the rest of his days on earth, my father never celebrated this holiday."
A message to those of you who cannot find anything to admire in Gummo, or who claim that it is trash without value: you may not be looking hard enough. One man's trash is another man's treasure.
If you can get through the opening credits of Gummo, and don't already despise the film to bits by that point, then it is likely you're in for a treat; however, Gummo is like biting into a apple and finding a worm inside. It's an ugly, ugly, beautiful film.…
What the Fuck
What the Fuck
Cracking Shuck
Holy Donald Duck
Smelly Truck
Youthful Puck
Hair that's growing out of your back
Kids that say the darndest things.
Poop.
Crepes. With bananas and asparagus.
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Spaceships blasting 409 on a chevy nova.
Gummo is about 100 times more bizarre than what you have just read.
"Life is beautiful. Really, it is. Full of beauty and illusions. Life is great. Without it, you'd be dead." - Solomon
This is like what Tree of Life would be like if it listened to screamo and sniffed glue. I'm not kidding. I really don't know what to say about this film, other than the fact it contains some of the most powerful and vicious scenes that I've seen so far. Here are some examples:
- The gratuitous portrayal of extreme cruelty against cats, both stray and domesticated.
- A play-fight that is really quite violent between two brothers.
- Two children verbally and physically abusing a boy dressed as a rabbit, while he plays dead.
- The ruthless destruction…
This movie ain’t weird or fucked up, white people just be like that.
rivals the killing of a sacred deer as the film with the most disturbing spaghetti eating scene
Don't let the criticisms of Gummo fool you. This film, along with Rob Zombie's Halloween films, are genuine representations of a society in the United States that is both shunned and unacknowledged. I've lived it, I can vouch for it, and I can prove it to you.
Korine may have hyperbolized it a bit (with his artistic choices such as bacon on a wall and bunny ears), but the personality traits of the Appalachian area is painfully, hilariously accurate.
It says something, that, when I first watched the film in my teen years, I didn't see anything about it that was unrealistic or sensationalized. It seemed normal to me, while films set in American suburbia felt like some kind of unrealized and unattainable fantasy.
Gummo (1997) This is a terrible movie. Really, not for the faint of heart. Someone described this movie as "white trash." And really, when you see the two kids whipping a dead cat, and that's pretty normal for what goes on in the movie...yuck.
Vegan alert:
Two kids whip a dead cat.
Seen:
May 2007
Korine always seems to carry a strong social commentary in his unconventional U.S. projects. Gummo is 100% purely expressionistic power through a constantly shifting mockumentary experimental tone directly addressing the decadent American suburban lifestyle under a social comment of consciously willing social stagnation over the lack of progress. It carries the cinematic techniques versatility of Todd Haynes with the Godard-esque multifaceted and multicultural nature of early Linklater but pouring the positivism down the drain and replacing it with a nihilistic collage of juxtaposed references to violence, abuse, incest and procrastination. It is an inescapable impressionistic exercise of aimless routine and mundanity subjugating all feelings of hope and progress featuring gallons of cats abuse.
Harmony Korine was 24 years old when…
What the fuck did I just watch? Not only is this the most pointless movie I've ever seen; it's also the worst movie I've ever seen. Against my better judgement, I watched the entire thing. Pure garbage.
Enter Harmony Korine's directorial debut: new trends in discouraging filmmaking.
An irreplicable masterpiece. 5th(?) watch and it somehow keeps on getting better. Still so much to discover with more rewatches. Easily in my top 10 films. And goddamn the ending wrecks me every time.
Pretty weird and it’s safe to say I’m not quite sure what I just watched but I didn’t hate it
i have a very deep and unique feeling for korine's work since i was little and gummo is one of my favorites.
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