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  Review by The Ron ½ 32

  "I will one day be thin, but Vincent Gallo will always be the director of The Brown Bunny". R. I. P. Roger Ebert.

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  Review by Hibiscus ★★★★★ 41

  Roger Ebert killed this movie, as well as the career of the most darring and potentially important director of modern american cinema

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  Review by hannah ★★★★★ 9

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  (watched with gallo’s commentary)
  
  to think that for years i had mocked this film, and all because of a scene that lasts less than 5 minutes. a scene that’s been misconstrued as one motivated by arrogance or entitlement, when in reality it’s a moment of considerable vulnerability on gallo’s part (in the commentary he mentions being nervous for weeks prior to shooting the scene, and clarifies why he chose to include it in the first place). on that note, gallo’s commentary gives so much perspective on his vision and filmmaking process, and greater insight into him as a person. for someone who is often labeled a narcissist or self-obsessed, gallo clearly has a great deal of insecurities that he doesn’t…

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  Review by RobotPolarBear ★★

  I actually think it's kind of clever that Gallo tried to deflect criticism of his narcissism by getting someone else to suck his dick for him.

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  Review by baradetski ★★★★★ 7

  "At the time, it felt like the most important thing in the world." — Vincent Gallo

  In my first log I called the film brutal, and now in my third I think that word doesn't do the film justice: it's quite clearly the saddest film I've ever seen. Everything about the film is sad, every frame of it radiates an intense feeling of pain. As I've often described to my brother during our many conversations about the film, I think it is maybe the only film ever made to be too sad to make me cry: which says a lot because recently I find myself crying more and more when I watch films, but for whatever reason I feel that…

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  Review by ‮🐌‬ 2

  imagine blowing a filmbro and he says “wow this is just like the brown bunny”

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  Review by SilentDawn ★★★★ 6

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  How cathartic to create a road movie without a particular physical destination. Sure, Vincent Gallo's Bud Clay yearns to compete in a race in California, and it offers a sturdy through-line, but hardly any of that really matters in the face of complete emotional desolation, a broken individual confronted with dangerous choices just to once again find himself at a crossroads. It's less about the trek of the open road and more about the immediacy of abusive relationships, tattered wounds, and fragile male ego. What we find in Clay's travels is a man that we cannot understand or like or even acknowledge, but we can empathize, even in the most horrifying of moments. It's clear how and why The Brown Bunny pushes so many viewers away, but in the process, it allows itself to be vulnerable, for anyone who might be listening.

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  Review by hannah ★★★★★

  whereas buffalo ‘66 is about coming to terms with your traumas and working to move past them and improve yourself, the brown bunny is about the inability to do so. becoming so lost in your own memories and past experiences that it renders you unable to form proper relationships with others, with bud essentially lost in a loop, briefly interacting romantically with women only to move on in a matter of minutes, setting off on the road again. no other woman will be able to replace daisy as the love of his life, no matter how many times he tries to replicate that same feeling. but bud doesn’t want to move on, he retreats into his memories of daisy and…

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  Review by Eli Hayes ★★★★½ 26

  "A million tears fall from my eyes;
  I can't continue with this life;
  I don't know why I fall in love
  If love is only meant to hurt me" 
  - Jazalyn

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  Review by Kaleb ½ 8

  This is one of those movies that some people praise as a masterpiece and some say is a self indulgent pile of shit. This is by far one of the most self indulgent piece of shit movies I’ve ever seen. Now I love a slow moving character piece, some of my favourite films are like that. The Brown Bunny is the reason some people hate arthouse. The script is laughable at best, with its clunky dialogue and horrible characterization. The worst offense of all is it’s possibly the most boring movie I’ve ever seen. I couldn’t believe this was only 90 minutes. I’m not even going to touch on the infamous scene because I just don’t care at this point. If any of my followers like this movie I’m very curious as to why because I’m always interested in other people’s opposing view to mine.

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  Review by PRIME 💖 ★★★★★ 1

  Rewatch with Vincent Gallo’s commentary track from the Japanese home video release. He talks a lot about the start-to-finish booing of the unfinished version exhibited in Cannes; how he positioned a monitor just out of frame, but to match his eyeline, so as to allow himself to compose the shots and serve as cinematographer; and he openly ponders what drove him to spend three years creating a film that (almost) nobody liked, that didn’t make any money, and that has since been a source of pain (based on the profoundly negative and sometimes mean-spirited critical response). To this end, he offers: “At the time, it felt like the most important thing in the world.”

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  Review by Rocky Ibarra ★★ 8

  This review may contain spoilers.

  The Brown Bunny is the story of Bud (Vincent Gallo), a racer in search of connection and empathy from women he meets as he travels across the country.

  Vincent Gallo’s controversial 2003 film splits my mind in two: one side tells me that Gallo has potential to be a good or great indie, arthouse director because of some specific stylistic choices made in this movie, and the other half reminds me of everything disgraceful and negative about the man behind the project despite the artistic merit. If you want a divisive movie, this is it.

  But man, I pitied Chloë Sevigny for having to shoot an explicit unsimulated sex act with the director, who was…