Gummo

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Summary: Surreality
Review: This film is truly, well, truthful. I love the fact that some parts are completely pointless. I mean, hey...life often is pointless. Life isn't like a "story". GUMMO IS SO LIKE LIFE THAT IT HAS TO BE BOTH COMICAL AND DISTURBING TO THE VIEWER. You know that there are people like this,everywhere, all around us. Deaf-mutes,the mentally ill, paint huffers, albinos, midgets, gays, rednecks, eccentric mothers and silly little kids....I just adore the way the kids are allowed to simply be kids in this film. Some people hate this movie, I think, because they are frightened to see reality paraded on a screen. I personally loved GUMMO and I'll watch it again. We need directors like Harmony Korine to give us films that depict such realistic scenes of the beauty and ugliness of everyday life. And some of the scenes are so, so funny! I laughed and I wretched! You can't walk away from GUMMO with the delusion that everyone is a boring, bourgeosie, middle-class, middle-brow yuppie. Because Korine throws it in our face that it's simply not true...lots of people are just unapologetically weird. And THAT, my friend, is entertainment.

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Summary: genius
Review: I loved it. It's origonal, very artistic, and put together nicely. I've noticed a lot of people wrote bad reviews about the movie... I guess they didnt understand it and the characters. Or probably have horrible taste in movies. Anyways watch it, regardless of the comments, you just might like it.

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Summary: What pure trash.
Review: Having lived in Xenia Ohio for several years now, I can tell you this peice of crap is completely false. Beleive it or not, there are people out there who think this is 'based on a true story' and that Xenia Ohio is really like this. The only thing 'true', is that we have had 2 tornados in the past 25 years, one of which in 1974 destroyed most of the town. Not in the '1990s' like the film potrays. This is not some racist white trash breeding ground, in fact a good portion of our population is of African orgin. I wouldnt care about this waste except that we know have vistors dumb enough to look around for the false landmarks in the movie.

Aside from my obvious bias, the movie is a bore. There is no plot, and the film relies on shock value like the usual reality-show world BS that is popular now.

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Summary: Don't Look at My Rating, Read My Review
Review: Now, this is not a movie that you need to add to your DVD collection, nor is it a great movie. Why 5 stars then? Cause this is what life is like. Not my life by any means and most likely not your life. But there are people out there and THIS is their life. One of the things I hated about the movie however was Bunny Boy. If this was some kind of metaphor I didn't catch it. This was simply a pointless character. Harmony Korine (the writer of "Kids") has made a movie that is just...Weird. It doesn't really have a plot either. The film is virtually a series of flashing images. But it basically shows us the lives of Tummler, Solomon, Darby, Dot (Chloe Sevigny,
"Boys Don't Cry" who also served as costume designer), and Helen. Their lives are twisted and a little bit disturbing. It is told in sort of a documentary like fashion. But the film is filled with graphic images like Tummler and Solomon killing cats, putting them in a bag, and selling them. And there is a LOT of homosexual overtones. One scene with a kid in drag I found sick and creepy. A-.
(Note: I would never buy this movie, nor would I watch it again. I am grading it on the sole fact of its no holds barred
look at life)

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Summary: Pathetic- One of the worst
Review: I just finished watching Gummo. What a mistake it was buying this piece of trash. Anyone who found this movie funny is disturbed. This isnt humorous at all and im into dark comedy. All it is is a bunch of sick depraved scenes rolled into one pile of trash while they are calling a movie. Its more like a documentary type film, if you want to even call it that. One of the other reviewers said ( get a sense of humor ). Heres some scenes from the movie and you be the judge as to if you have find these things humorous. A brother pimps his mentally disabled sister.- Killing and abusing cats. - The rest of the scenes i cannot even say on this site. This isnt a comedy. I have seen kids and was expecting somthing worse but i never expected this. There is absolutely no merit to this film whatsoever. It dosent even deserve a review. I am writing this review to warn you all not to purchase this movie. It will be a mistake and a waste of money.

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Summary: Complete Dreck
Review: I wish I could give this movie something worse than a one-star rating, it's by far the worst movie I've ever seen in my entire life. That being said, I also think that everybody should see this movie just so they can truly appreciate movies that are only bad, like Waterworld, Gigli, etc. While these movies are insipid, at least they're bearable. The entire time I was watching Gummo I was praying that a mountain lion would scratch out my eyes and eat my brain just to end the torment. I always thought Harmony Korine was a pretentious jackass but this sent me over the edge. Seriously, when the most likeable character in your movie is a boy who walks around in bunny ears and actually has no speaking part it's very possible that you've chosen the wrong vocation in life. I think he would do much better as an FBI interrogator or something, because he obviously has an unnatural talent at making people feel like death is a pretty good option compared to what he has to serve out. In short, Gummo is crap on toast.

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Summary: I don't know who most of you people are...
Review: but how in the world was anyone seriously offended or disturbed by this movie? Loosen your belt a little. Yes, there are some mildly shocking things going on, but had you never heard anything about this film before? The way I've heard people talk about it, I really expected this to blow my mind. Maybe it would if you had never seen a movie before or were 12 years old, but neither of those apply to me. People keep complaining about the "lack of plot", but since when has it ever been necessary for a film to create a cut-and-dry story for it to be entertaining? This is a documentary-style fictional account of the lives of some off-kilter people in a less than fortunate setting. It is genuinely amusing at many points, and I sincerely enjoyed it. Don't believe the hype about this being so fantastically disturbing. Unless you read cat fancy or live in a world without sexual depravity or poverty, you should only cringe a bit.

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Summary: White Trash needs a Movie Too!
Review: This movie is interesting... ugly as it may be. It a hyperbolated view of our modern trash-reality. I saw this movie when it came out and yes, I loved it. With lines like "You look smell a fag rabbit" etc it had that avant garde artiness that I cant get enough of. The plot in the true scense of the word is missing but this defines the the complete oblivion that the characters exist within. This lost world of white trash we are presented with is truly a microcosm of the mindless class of people who exist in their tiny worlds looking for the next fix of glue or shoe polish. In this respect it is a decent film.

As I watched the film two weeks ago I really couldn't say much for it. It is funny in its vulgarity in parts but really is nto shot well and seems like a low budget documentary with out any direction at points and seems like bad student film with its shoddy voice overs in other parts. The filming is stark and seems like it was shot with one camera (cinematography is somewhat better than the blair witch project) Maybe age has tempered my views.

That being said, check the film out. I would be wrong to say don't watch it. It is interesting visually (and I think about it often) and will make you think a bit. Their isnt a lot of substance here but it is worth a single view.


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Summary: Disturbing and unforgettable
Review: The first time I saw this movie, some friends were having a little party get together. That was not a good way to see this film because some parts are terribly disturbing and some parts are laugh out loud funny--but then you wonder if you'll be struck dead for laughing at something like that. If you want to see people that are very different and don't have the same lifestyle as you do, this could be very entertaining or even horrifying--depending on your lifestyle. I was horror stricken through most of it. Having also seen the movie True Stories which was made ten or more years before Gummo, it is very easy to see the distinct similarities yet True Stories is much lighter and funnier. What is Gummo? It is a train wreck that you can't quit looking at even though it is going to leave a little scar. This movie is certainly not for everyone.

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Summary: I am actually from Xenia, and this is not about Xenia
Review: This movie is a sick display of what never happened in Xenia.
I won't be able to get those 90 minutes of my life back but thankfully, I didn't waste any money on that piece of filth some refer to as a movie. I have lived in Xenia for about 5 years now and I have never known anyone who sells cat carcasses to chinese restaurants, constantly wears pink bunny ears, wrestles with chairs, or eats dinner in the bathtub. I know the movie is supposed to be set in my hometown but even our white trash isn't that white trash. So, thank you, Harmony Korine, for putting Xenia on the map. Now the world can see what a well-bred, civilized little town we are.