Synopsis
Prepare to visit a town you'd never want to call home.
Solomon and Tummler are two teenagers killing time in Xenia, Ohio, a small town that has never recovered from the tornado that ravaged the community in the 1970s.
1997 Directed by Harmony Korine
Solomon and Tummler are two teenagers killing time in Xenia, Ohio, a small town that has never recovered from the tornado that ravaged the community in the 1970s.
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"My father worked the late shift as a bathroom attendant. My father was mugged on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. For the rest of his days on earth, my father never celebrated this holiday."
A message to those of you who cannot find anything to admire in Gummo, or who claim that it is trash without value: you may not be looking hard enough. One man's trash is another man's treasure.
If you can get through the opening credits of Gummo, and don't already despise the film to bits by that point, then it is likely you're in for a treat; however, Gummo is like biting into a apple and finding a worm inside. It's an ugly, ugly, beautiful film.…
rivals the killing of a sacred deer as the film with the most disturbing spaghetti eating scene
The film looks great but idk it smells bad. Idk how a film can smell bad but this film smells bad
Can handle animal mutilation but I draw the line at spaghetti and milk in a bathtub
"Life is beautiful. Really, it is. Full of beauty and illusions. Life is great. Without it, you'd be dead." - Solomon
This is like what Tree of Life would be like if it listened to screamo and sniffed glue. I'm not kidding. I really don't know what to say about this film, other than the fact it contains some of the most powerful and vicious scenes that I've seen so far. Here are some examples:
- The gratuitous portrayal of extreme cruelty against cats, both stray and domesticated.
- A play-fight that is really quite violent between two brothers.
- Two children verbally and physically abusing a boy dressed as a rabbit, while he plays dead.
- The ruthless destruction…
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.
Don't let the criticisms of Gummo fool you. This film, along with Rob Zombie's Halloween films, are genuine representations of a society in the United States that is both shunned and unacknowledged. I've lived it, I can vouch for it, and I can prove it to you.
Korine may have hyperbolized it a bit (with his artistic choices such as bacon on a wall and bunny ears), but the personality traits of the Appalachian area is painfully, hilariously accurate.
It says something, that, when I first watched the film in my teen years, I didn't see anything about it that was unrealistic or sensationalized. It seemed normal to me, while films set in American suburbia felt like some kind of unrealized and unattainable fantasy.