Gummo imdb

Lonely residents of a tornado-stricken Ohio town wander the deserted landscape trying to fulfill their boring, nihilistic lives, gummo imdb. Solomon : [voiceover] Life is beautiful. Really, it is. Full of beauty and illusions.

Sign In. Gummo Hide Spoilers. Mama told me not to come Spearin 9 December Remember when you were in grade school and the weird kids down the block were doing something that looked, well, interesting, and your mom told you to stay away?

Gummo imdb

Lonely residents of a tornado-stricken Ohio town wander the deserted landscape trying to fulfill their boring, nihilistic lives. Solomon : [voiceover] Life is beautiful. Really, it is. Full of beauty and illusions. Life is great. Without it, you'd be dead. Sign In Sign In. New Customer? Create account. Gummo R 1h 29m. Play trailer

Its creator would have you regard it as an "art film.

Sign In. Edit Gummo Bunny Boy Nick Sutton Tummler Lara Tosh Girl in Car Jacob Reynolds Solomon Darby Dougherty

The film is set in Xenia, Ohio , a Midwestern American town that had been previously struck by a devastating tornado. The loose narrative follows several main characters who find odd and destructive ways to pass time, interrupted by vignettes depicting other inhabitants of the town. The film received negative reviews by critics, and generated substantial press for its graphic content and stylized, loosely woven narrative. A young boy named Solomon narrates the events of the tornado that devastated the small town of Xenia, Ohio. A mute adolescent boy, known as Bunny Boy, wears only pink bunny ears, shorts, and tennis shoes on an overpass in the rain.

Gummo imdb

Sign In. Gummo Hide Spoilers. Mama told me not to come Spearin 9 December Remember when you were in grade school and the weird kids down the block were doing something that looked, well, interesting, and your mom told you to stay away? Did you? Did you ever wonder what it was they were up to down there, behind the garage, in the basement of someone's house, over by the bowling alley? Rent Gummo and find out.

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I can't say I ever found myself in such a screwed up place as this one, but I know one thing -- if I did I would certainly want to go back and document it! Suffered through it again to realize I even hated it more than I remembered. User reviews Review. When this strikes a larger community, it has disastrous effects. The next scene in the movie is set to the song "Crying" by Roy Orbison, which had been previously mentioned by Tummler as the song his older sibling, who was a transsexual, would sing the sibling eventually went to the "Big City" and abandoned him. Is Gummo based on a true story? There are always going to be wannabe artsy types out there who claim to see things other people don't; they "get" movies like Gummo, or at least they pretend to, so they can act as if they're in on something the rest of the world just isn't smart enough to understand. Mama told me not to come Spearin 9 December The women of the town are represented mainly by three sisters. See the gallery. They are merely what we've always thought our neighbors capable of and we've always, in a sick way, almost wanted to believe. A film that demands a second viewing to truly understand the director's vision is a rare thing; my initial impression was of a mockery of Red Necked America, but now after several viewings I understand it as a celebration of the sidelined aspect of American culture. Unsettling and humbling, we are given a glimpse of inbred Americana straddling the border of malignant sadism and total insanity. And that is really the core of Gummo—an exploration at the ways we become alienated from life during our formative years.

The film follows a number of fringe characters, including Solomon, a skinny year-old whose mother is as confused as it is abusive.

The main idea or "story" here is just a stream-of-consciousness tracking of a number of white trash kids. Phelipo Rose Shephard Two other boys hunt down cats to sell to the local supermarket. Cole Bernadette Resha These are the only recurring characters to speak of. Please enable browser cookies to use this feature. Prepare to be shocked and provoked whilst being entertained; when the film finishes you are compelled to take stock of what you have seen and in my eyes that is what films are for. So yes, there are indeed people just like this, if not worse. It is impossible to understand anything fully from the outside looking in. Connections Featured in Belly They don't' just feel it, they bathe in it, it surrounds them, it is their reality. Create a list ».