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Summary: I loved this film. One kid wears a DIO shirt. hahaha
Review: If you enjoy seeing a young skank bathe in his own filth, you'll love this film. I know I did. PS. I would have given it 4 stars but since it's been getting so many bad reviews, I decided to give it gold.
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Summary: not for the faint hearted
Review: this movie has it all...its not a hollywood cookie cutter, brad pitt,love story. if you like strange movies, indie movies, weird movies, this is you picture. take it for what it is...non-conforming, new, original...with a few nice sub-plots...a few killer mental pictures for everyone to take away with them, cats in water.... ...supermarket owners buying dead cats...pulling plugs on old people...what else can you ask for?
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Summary: Sick and plotless garbage
Review: The young director, Harmony Korine, who made his debut with the controversal movie "Kids" got even more wierd and sick with Gummo. There's not even a plot, just a loose collage of scenes which is supposedly a documentary about a fictional town in Tennessee that had experienced a tornado. The acting is mostly improvised by unknowns and many of the scenes are grusome. Teenagers kill stray cats and sell them to the local butcher and then go out and sniff glue. A retarded girl is prostituted by her brother. A drunken homosexual pass is made at a dwarf. Two young men have a real fight and beat each other bloody. Cruelty is everywhere and every scene is a shocker. The cinematography is often grainy and blurred and voices are muffled and unclear. I'm the curious type and so I wanted to see this video. I was prepared to be shocked. But I was also bored because the story just didn't go anyplace. I'm surprised it got any kind of distribution at all. For the barf bag crowd only.
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Summary: Tries too hard...and misses it
Review: Every so often, I like to go shopping for a DVD that is unique and really gains its notoriety though cult status. What attracted me to this was that it was done by the same director for "Kids." I saw "Kids" as a magnified reflection of the worst of adolescence in an urban area. The back of the DVD only mentioned that it was really about a town after a tornado had hit; mainly being about the lives of the characters in the aftermath. I love "risk buys" (where you purchase a film without knowing much about it) and got zapped on this one. Experimentation in films is excellent and can tap into new dimensions that are not "Hollywood." However, one only needs to listen to the director's commentary while the pictures are going to determine that this is pretty much for shock value only. His framework is pretty much, "I can write what I like." Here, he shows us a virtual photo album of what appears to be life in Appalachia. The tornado is pretty much incidental. Even though no definite plot is there (sometimes a plus) everything is haphazard. The feeling I got was this film was for little more than shock value. If you want a film that is out of the ordinary and may appeal to the fact that it breaks the rules, you've found one. Unfortunately, it does little more. Sorry, this movie was a miss.
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Summary: Like an acid trip
Review: When I first saw this film, I was drunk and thought I missed something on the first go-round. However, watching it fully sober made me realize that the movie was just weird. But thats its charm. Its wacky and wild and the cast do resemble "Jerry Springer rejects." Even though some of my friends still arent talking to me for making them watch this, I thought that while it wasnt the best movie in the world, it definitely will have some moments you'll talk about later on.(i.e. The "smelly" rabbit scene)
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Summary: nothing short of remarkable
Review: I worked at a video rental store, and the cover alone intriguied me to try it out. It's so oddly amusing at first glance, but it eventually reveals a sick and twisted side to human existence... to a quite disturbing extent.At times you're stomach will be in knotts, at others you may crack a smile, and at some times you may just be in complete depression over the whole deal, seeing how sick it is that some people actually live like that.... but when it's all over and done with... when you go back in your mind and reflect on it all.... you can't help but think "wow... that in some [messed] up way... was beautiful."
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Summary: Kind of Boring
Review: The oddness of what I was seeing held my interest at first but it quickly grew numbing and tiresome. There was no real purpose to what was being shown, other than perhaps the director's attempt to be bizarre and "out there, man." A self-indulgent gross-out picture that overstays its welcome, it seemed much longer than its 90 to 100 minute running time. Just scene after scene after scene of pointless weird posturing. If there was some sort of point to it after all, well, who cares?
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Summary: Two Words..
Review: Two Word some up this terrible film.. pointless and awful
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Summary: disturbing, yet incredible.
Review: i'm just going to say.. it's an incredible movie. and i'm sure that every single scene subliminally means something.
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Summary: Disturbing and Brilliant
Review: Arguably the most disturbing film since Salo, Harmony Korine's hateful opus is meandering, plotless, documentary-style piece of fictional celluloid about the citizens of Xenia, Ohio--a typical white trash community. There's really no plot to summarize in an attempt to ruin the movie for those who've yet to see it, so I won't bother. In lieu of a summary, I should just illustrate a few of the more arresting scenes: Children riding their bicycles while music from Burzum and EYEHATEGOD supplies the soundtrack; a teenage boy being given a bath in a filthy tub by his mother (a piece of bacon, taped to the bathroom wall, is cleary visible throughout the scene); actress Chloe Sevigny appearing as a mindless redneck with "feathered", parted-down-the-middle hair; and a couple of typical meth-lab proprietors mercilessly abusing a chair. The point of such disturbing scenery escapes me, but if there's anything to be learned, maybe it's that director Korine actually grew up with such people and wanted to make an over-the-top autobiographical film of sorts. I think he's probably the very antithesis of the privileged morons who attend film school at NYU or USC, and he's proven it here. If nothing else, this film deserves recognition for that alone. And--I'm sure of it--his best work is yet to come.
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