Probably the best film no one hears about, Underground is so full of life yet soaked in death.
The director, Emir Kusturica has somehow turned the real world into a Fellini party, a Lubitsch romance with Alex Cox punk poetry mixed with Powell and Pressburger cinematic weight.
At 2 hours and 45 minutes Underground only ever rests when the chapter cards appear on screen. Starting with a mentally challenged innocent young man at a zoo trying to protect a chimp…
Max hangs onto the only tree we see in the film, as a huge piece of man made machinery rips it out of the earth.
True poetic imagery in an action masterpiece.
I find it strange that this movie is so popular. I see 'bros' quoting it and they always have this next to Goodfellas and The Sopranos and Entourage in their collection of movies(as do I). I think a lot of people like it for the wrong reasons. They like the violence and the guns and DENIRO. But for me this is the quintessential art house film: ambiguous in it's meaning, a meandering story with no plot in sight, a protagonist…
What the Fuck
What the Fuck
Cracking Shuck
Holy Donald Duck
Smelly Truck
Youthful Puck
Hair that's growing out of your back
Kids that say the darndest things.
Poop.
Crepes. With bananas and asparagus.
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Spaceships blasting 409 on a chevy nova.
Gummo is about 100 times more bizarre than what you have just read and I apologize for this review.
