Gummo

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Summary: Gummo is a work of art
Review: Inorder to enjoy this movie you may have to watch it twice, it is a different perspective for you closemindd people, and the humor is certainly different. I know many who hated the movie until they thought about every part and watched it again. Truly a creative way of thinking and filming. Just because something is not the norm doesn't make it crap. You have to be open to this style of filming. The plot (or lack there of) is a little difficult to follow but any intellegent person should be able to tell what's going on. A good movie for the artistic intellectuals out there; we know art when we see it.

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Summary: Mind-numbingly awful, pointless, and pretentious
Review: This is honestly, without a doubt, the worst movie I have ever seen. What really irritated me about this movie is not that it is disturbing. "Schindler's List" and "Breaking the Waves" are disturbing but they are great works of art. Their sole purpose is not to shock but to tell their story. Gummo, however, had no point or purpose. Each scene continues on...and on....and on. It's only goal was to gross out the audience. Well I'm sorry, but that is not enough to merit a movie, period. Furthermore, a movie should not just show one side of things. There was no hint of beauty in this town, no glimmer of hope that these characters could lean on. And on that note, the directors need to work on their accuracy. I know someone who comes from that town and she is quite educated and well-off. She is not the exception. At the same time, I know people who are poor and they do not kill cats, have sex with retarded girls, and abuse their children. The problem with this movie is that they attribute all these negative qualities to the poor, when in reality, there is racism, prostitution, and abuse in every sector of society.
I agree with someone who made the comment that independent films do not always equal quality. There is a pretentious idea now that the lower the budget, the more artful the product. Give me a break. This movie is so bad it was actually painful to watch. The acting was uninspired, the narration mumbled, and each scene utterly pointless. Rent this to see the worst movie ever-no joke. But please don't buy it.

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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: Engaging, yet, not engaging....
Review: This movie is a depraved piece of filth.The movie GUMMO is a depressing, mockery of life in the neither regions of america. It, is an uncomfortably, surreal, disjointed, trashy mess of a picture. The actors in thes movie portray ignorant dirty misfits, so disfunctional, you'll vomit all over your genitalia.A pletora of has beens, never was's and mommies little darlin's. It's not so offensive, as it is obscenly comical, and lowbrow. Plotless and pointless, it is a seeming waste of time, making no sense whatsoever, and lacking in any redeeming qualities, whatso ever.

That being said, I loved this movie, and after repeated viewings, have not grown tired of it. It's like watching STEEL MAGNOLIAS at the zoo, with down syndrome children, on angel dust.

I give it five stars.

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Summary: Cest La Vie...
Review: 'Gummo' is a frank and honest satire that explore the many negative aspects of the American society. It deals with dyfunctional families, sexually abused kids, gun violence, alchoholism, euthanasia, etc. Although the storyline might seem disjointed at times, and some of the actions might seem outragerous to some viewers; but it's still the best film in its genre. The only recent film that could be compare to it is the 'American Beauty'. But the later was way more timid than Gummo, and hence isn't as well an effective piece of social satire.

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Summary: Absolutely worthless trash and the worst film I've ever seen
Review: I never thought anything could top such horrible "films" as Wired or Where the Buffalo Roam, but this one leaves them all in the dust and then some. As I sat through pointless scene after scene, I kept wondering why I was wasting my time and I contemplated nearly 200 times pressing stop on the remote and hoping it was all a nightmare that I could awake from. I was tossing and turning uncontrollably so I figured that might be the reason. Alas, I pinched myself and discovered it was a nightmare of another sort.

Although I've seen hundreds of movies in the theater, I have never walked out on one. I knew that had I seen this one in the theater that it would have been the first. I've had dental work that was more enjoyable than this... There is absolutely no reason for one second of this to have ever been made. If the director (for lack of a better term) Harmony Korine had filmed this as home movies and never showed them to anyone else, then it would be no big deal. Instead, he chose to make the world a much worse place by contaminating all of us who've seen it.

What are the worthwhile scenes here? Is it the eyebrowless females placing tape over their breasts? Is it the two characters who spend their day finding and killing cats to sell to a local food merchant? How about the kid in the bunny costume who allows two foul-mouthed adolescents to stand over him with cap guns while he plays dead (this scene went on and on and on and on--at this point I began counting tiles on my ceiling as that was far more entertaining). The truth is there isn't one entertaining or socially redeeming thing about the entire "movie".

...I couldn't care less if a movie is pure Hollywood or an independent film on a shoestring budget, good is good and bad is bad. The fact that Gummo was a low budget indie film with unknowns doesn't make it a good movie. Nor does the presence of a big budget, star power, and expensive advertising make a movie good. Hook and Batman and Robin both come to mind.

...Believe me, I got it. When I see a worthless waste of my time, I get it. Bottom line: avoid this garbage and do something more worthy of your time, like rearranging your sock drawer or cleaning the lint trap on the dryer. Both will be more entertaining than Gummo.

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Summary: Really wrong but totally worth seeing
Review: I've seen this movie three or four times and I have to say that even though there are scenes that are disturbing (i.e. cat killing) the movie as a whole is fascinating to watch. Although the movie is fiction, the scary thing is it could very well be a documentary of small town white trash. You know that things like this go on and to experience them in this context makes you feel like you need to go wash afterwards. Even if you see it and don't really like it, at least appreciate it for it's horrific appeal. Hey, at least when someone asks you what the worst movie is, you'll have and answer.

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Summary: As these reviews prove, you either love it or you hate it
Review: I saw Gummo a week ago and I can't get its images out of my mind. Every scene was startling, funny, and/or disturbing in one way or another. As I see it, all of the the people in this town in Ohio were victims of a tornado; it ripped through their lives and left them full of anger but with nothing to pin that anger on. And so they vent by shooting at cats--and then whipping the corpses--or by wrestling a chair (that bizarre scene on its own is worth the price of the movie), or through child abuse, or shooting a kid with a cap gun, among other things. I think director Korrine is ultimately sympathetic with his characters because he shows them as pathetic and vulnerable (eg, kids shivering in the rain). The moments which are shocking are balanced by moments which are sublime and poetic. I would recommend it highly to anyone who appreciates the off-beat.

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Summary: Great Movie
Review: This movie was great. I saw KIDS only days before and I had to go back to the store and rent this movie. It was definitely not the typical movie. It had cat killing, songs about the green bay tree and a girl from mississippi, and best of all, chair wrestling. Although slightly disturbing, it did prove to alter the way one thinks after seeing this movie so I guess it served it's purpose. Not saying that anyone would go do any of this just because they saw this movie, simply that it made you think and it was great in the process.

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Summary: I hate this movie
Review: I had heard about this movie from a friend, who hadn't seen it, but knew that Harmony Kline had written it, and directed it. We had both seen Kids, and thought it was great. Unfortunately, every video store i went to didn't have it. However, I did find it for sale in the mall. So i bought it, and told my friend that I bought it. So we watched it. After about two hours of the worst assault on my intellect, my friend and I went to the bar and drank ourselves silly in futile effort to forget why I wasted my money on this. This movie has absolutely no point. There was no story, or train of thought. Just PWT kids practicing to be PWT adults. I would hope that this would be insulting to the PWT population. Some have argued that this was art. I would simply tell those people that art should invoke some kind thought or emotion, and at least, make you wonder why you feel the way you do. I didn't have to think about why I felt mad, it's because i threw away money on this garbage. Now I'm one that believes that people should do and try different things, but this is the exception. Please don't buy this movie.