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Summary: Demented, disturbing, daring and brilliant!
Review: Like Korine's "Kids", the beautiful part of this movie is its seemingly documentarious flavor. A film to be either loved or hated depending on your artistic thought potential. Disturbing on all levels and deliciously dirty. Gummo is fantastic film-making in all respects. Harmony Korine is a true genious. His motive seems to be to open the floodgates of controversy concerning the human condition. I give this film all the adjectives of good favor. Beautiful, creative, gutsy and flavorful. Please, continue with these wonderful works Harmony.
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Summary: White trash never looked so trashy
Review: a far cry from "Kids". This movie does sucseed in shocking the viewer to numbed state (perhaps its purpose!?) some of the images however are true to life and should be given their due. there is something to be said for the acting though. the cast makes everything very real, very believeable, and in doing so brings some depth to the otherwise muddled plot line.
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Summary: Strange.....oh but that's good!
Review: What a powerful film! At first I hesitated to watch it because of some of the negative reviews of it. I'm glad I didn't pay much attention to them because I really liked it.
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Summary: Hats off to Korine
Review: This movie (like kids) is supposed to be a wake up call to America but this one is oh so much better. He corrects his wrong by making all the people in the movie so incredibly unlikable no one in their right mind would like to emulate. Unlike kids where I found my friends start talking like Tele and Casper thinking what they do is cool, Gummo shows all the people living an obviously pathetic and downright horrible life. So to Harmony Korine I bow down to you.
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Summary: Totally the best!
Review: MMM... well how should I start off. Well I live in a garbage can and I want a girlfriend real bad so I can jump nogasta! O.K lets talk about GUMMO>? Gummo rhymes with your mamammmmmmmmmmmma! so what else do you wnat to here? write back.
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Summary: Nasty yes but gutsy too
Review: Sure, this movie is very disturbing in many many ways. So is driving onto a lot of back roads in most areas of this country. But it's rivetting, original & perversely funny. It's distressing that so many people ( professional & amateur) reviewing this movie (or natural Born Killers, for that matter) seem to base their judgements on *manners* and *taste* more than anything. To me this movie is a devastating comment on a very real & sick condition which those who wince & hold their noses prefer to ignore. So what else is new?
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Summary: one of the rare films today worth a damn, but...
Review: This is not for people who do not like art or for people who need action or a plot. This excludes a lot of people, this restriction, but it is not as obvious as some people assume. If you think, "Who would watch a movie without a plot?" don't watch this. Go to the newspaper and find the movie with this biggest ad.The problem with film is that all films are the same, in essence. Even the ones you (and I) really enjoy are enjoyable mainly because they're just a little bit more different from the masses than usual. It's just a question of finding a new trick or twist to the same damned thing. "Gummo" breaks free and does something new. It does NOT try pointlessly to shock. It is a beautiful film. Visually, structurally, and in content, the thing is just amazing. Harmony Korine is one of those rare directors in this day and age who are actually artists and not businessmen. Definitely worth watching IF you are into film and not just into popcorn-popping box office flicks.
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Summary: Great movie!
Review: Guys, don't believe those who says the movie is a waste of time. They're those who's afraid to face the facts: nation ( american first of all) is dying out. Think about this film in a global sense! The movie is not a try to "frighten" people, it's a try to wake them up and get them out of "Titanic" dreamland. Korine undertakes a desperate chance to make society look at itself in the country where all such movies are doomed to fail. Hats off!
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Summary: Um....Okay....
Review: Welcome to Xenia, Ohio, where you can meet prostitutes with Down's syndrome, a pair of glue-sniffing, cat-killing teenagers who get paid for the roadkill they find, mindless hicks, black midgets who hang out with doped-out teens....you name it, it probably lives in Xenia. The story (if there is any) follows the lives of the dead-end human beings who live in Xenia....a town that has been hell on earth ever since a tornado tore it apart. GUMMO (what the hell IS Gummo, anyway? Maybe I missed something) particularly focuses on two loser hick teenagers...the older, more dominant one, though twisted, is sort of a kind soul who likes to think alot (which is a feat for anyone who lives in Xenia). And the younger one, who appears on the cover of GUMMO, is a quiet, smart, and quite possibly the wierdest-looking kid in the galaxy. They like to go around killing cats so they can get paid by a Supermarket owner (exactly WHAT the store owner does with these cats is anyone's guess). While somewhat entertaining and decently well-made, I knock GUMMO down a couple of stars for TRYING too hard gross us out...yes, it tries too hard. This is what they call "desperate filmmaking," kiddies. Some films shock us naturally, but other films such as this one (see also DOOM GENERATION) is just a sign of its makers trying to be "different," and "wierd." I also mark this movie off for its pointless, meaningless subject matter. What a waste of time. The viewer walks away from this movie litteraly saying "What the HELL was that?!" Also, you gain nothing but knowing that you wasted a couple hours of your life. This review may seem quite "mean," but I'm just getting tired of these "innovative" Indie filmmakers making these disgusting movies, not to make a good movie, but just to be "different." Though, you may want to check out this movie for a scene in which a large hick, after losing a match of arm-wrestling to a midget, comically takes his agressions out on a chair (!). Watch at your own risk.
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Summary: An Ambitious, Fun, Sick, Messy and Strong Film.
Review: "Gummo," at the very least, does what very few films have even tried to do in the past 40 years, which is make an original film. Korine's impressionistic film takes time to get used to but as the film unfolds you realize that the film is more then merely a freak show. The reveals Korine as a cagey cultural observer (if not the world's best storyteller) and someone with Pasolini or Godard-like thoughts on how approach film. Nevertheless, at the end of the day, you are left with a film that you have constent back and forth with. A film that demands your attention. While not perfect, the film is different, exciting and yes, sick.
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