If you've seen Gummo, I'm impressed.

Jan 26, 2005 16:50


I have witnessed one of the weirdest, most disturbing movies ever created. It's called Gummo and it was made around 1997. It's an indie movie about a small white-trash town in Ohio that was hit by a terrible tornado in the 70's and judging by the film's content, never recovered.

The film doesn't really have a plot, though. Everything is shot in a quasi-documentary style. Each scene follows the same characters, but the scenes have no consequence. In essence, you're just viewing random images, situations, and dialogues that follow no narrative structure whatsoever.

There's the two teens on bikes, that ride around and kill cats with pellet guns and sell them to meat markets. There's the guy who pimps his retarded little sister in his own home. The inbred girl saying that she'd pay money to touch Patrick Swayze. The drunk rednecks who gather around a chair and destroy it, chanting "Kill that motherfucker!" The teenage albino girls who put tape on their nipples and rip them off so that they're "more red". The fact that there are only five real actors in Gummo makes you shiver.

This movie makes you look at your own life and say, "Damn am I lucky!" Anything that goes bad in your life, you can compare it to the problems these characters have and not worry anymore. Because of this, Gummo is an amazing movie. The critics HATED it, but who cares?

Check it out HERE.
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