Gummo was the last american masterpiece

Gummo was the last american masterpiece

who

gummo

It was exploitation pure and simple. You couldn't even tell me what the narrative really was outside of a thinly hinted theme of degradation over a generation, and even that's a stretch you can only arrive at because of the accompanying 'childhood' footage of the main character being bullied.

> Rednecks killing cats.
> Masterpiece.

julien donkey boy tho
and james benning

Is this really what Americans think?

So was your mom until you were born.

>Gummo
>Anything other than shit-tier American nihilism
Sorry, sport. Gummo was a pleeb test and you just failed it
Protip: Not every independent or Criterion film is Kino.

FUCKIN RABBIT! I HATE RABBITS!

no, it was evil satanist trash

i really didn't get the sense that harmony felt any contempt for the characters in the movie. he likes his odd, carnivalesque characters but it never seems mean spirited to me.

It's not mean-spirited it's just in the same vein as COPS or liveleak videos. It can be very effective, just look at Spring Breakers, but this was before Korine could put the style to good use.

Here there's no real takeaway at all. It's just down and out trailer trash killing cats. And you know Korine couldn't afford rubber props so there's also that.

Nothing new for trash like you

>DUDE TAPE BACON TO THE WALL, IT WILL BE HILARIOUS AND THE AUDIENCE WILL HAVE NO IDEA TO REACT LMAO

what makes it so unsettling?

That this is reality in America

You're only 35 miles away from inbredtown

Association of childhood imagery with corrosion and decay.
Vaguely coherent but abstract and disjointed themes and dialogue.

>Rednecks killing cats.
Are we going to pretend this doesn't happen?

Are we going to pretend this is a film?

Seeing the true face of 'middle america'.

>retarded girl from german imageboard shows me this
>"dude its like the best movie ever LOL"

What's taped to the wall

ham

>DUDE INBRED REDNECKS LMAO

Clearly this kino hit too close to the trailer park for Sup Forums.

you can say they were really chewing the scenery

>Eating spaghetti and milk in the bathtub
I can't even imagine doing this. It's like something Charlie Kelly would do

>when the chocolate bar falls into the filthy bath

that is bacon

I want to get a dog and name him after Solomon