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You'll never eat spaghetti again!
Harmony Korine has his detractors, but the world's better off with him in it. This is his directorial debut (he wrote KIDS which was directed by Larry Clark) and as you can tell if you watch it, he also wrote it and probably did all the casting of the real townies himself. "Gummo" doesn't have a plot, and the so-called story doesn't really flow in a conventional way. He's got a different sense of humor: rednecks beating the crap out of a chair (my favorite scene), a toe-less albino discussing what she looks for in a man, a kid lifting "weights" to Madonna while his mother tap-dances, deaf people arguing loudly in a bowling alley, the prostitute, the infamous bathtime gross-out scene (bacon? on the wall?), Harmony's cameo as a drunk gay boy pouring his heart out to a black midget, and many more lovely scenes. But it's not all funny. Some of it is quite disturbing and profound in a sick, sad way. It's not for the faint of heart or cat owners. One of my friends thought it was the stupidest movie he'd ever seen- then again, he thought "Shakespeare In Love" was a masterpiece. The technique he used in filming was great, and some of my favorite parts are either the still photos or the slow-motion segments. The soundtrack is also killer. "Gummo" stands alone, and proudly so. You'll never see anything quite like it. PS: you'll love the outfits the characters wear, Chloe herself picked them out!

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Shock Value & Disguised as Art house cinema
You have to truly study film to understand this movie. I have been reading these reviews and this is not arthouse cinema as most put in their reviews it's simply shock value material with no plot at all. Now the people in these reviews who simply bash it just simply don't get it. Harmony Korine did a good job his point was well taken the film was made to shock. Thats exactly what it did it got you to feel something so with that in itself I gave it two stars but other than that it is not arthouse in any sense. The scenes are very fast and supposed to be real people doing meaningless things in a rundown suburban hick town in Ohio after a tornado hit. The cinematography was excellent I'll give it that. People are amazed at this film good or badly but the point is so evident to shock. I don't even think Harmony wrote a script for this just a guideline. You want to see arthouse rent a Warhol or Fellini film 81/2 perhaps then you'll see but if you want to feel sick & shocked see Gummo. Basically a film trying way to hard for shock view value & characters that are desensitized to the standard ways of living the film basically shows what would happen if a society completely lost all morals.

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CRAPPO
A better title for this extremly annoying film would be CRAPPO.