what the fuck

Harmony Korine is a visual artist and this creation..this movie is at times unwatchable..and at others is so depressing sad and just useless...he created a movie that is not just real..at times its too real...the human response is to be threatened by things you cannot grasp but Harmony is truly engulfed by it

Weird and beautiful.

Really depressing.

Fascinating and perverse. Frequently unsettling. Sadly, I dated a girl who lived in rural florida and was able to explain almost every scene.

The only major flaw I could find in Gummo is that I wanted nothing more than to stab the main characters in the eyes for killing cats. While undiscerning moviegoers viewed this as being random and haphazard, it is actually visionary and very well thought-out. It also defies the simplistic summations that some of its supportive reviewers have given it. Like all good works of art Gummo is ambiguous and provokes many different thoughts.

Honestly I find a lot of humanity in this film despite what people say of it. The most obvious case of this is also the one which is most likely to anger naysayers where the young kid meets the prostitute who has Down's syndrome and the kid just sits there and talks to her. If you look beyond the provocation there's a lot of tenderness to the scene and a similar tenderness throughout the film. Individual scenes might be funny but the overall image Gummo creates of this town was heartbreaking.

hit somethin deep

One of those films that reminds us that there's beauty to be found everywhere. Even in the ugliest places.

Truly terrible

This was..well..different. Not the good kind.

Completely bizarre look at the neglected rural areas of America. It's brutally realistic because the characters are pulled straight from non actors. The "acting" is essentially improvisation and there is no real plot to speak of. Feels a bit exploitative and there's a general freakshow atmosphere to the film but it's a surprising combination of sad, hilarious, and charming.

It's an interesting, original and fresh film, which details the moral downfall of a town after a tornado. It has some scenes you won't find anywhere else, and it's pretty much the only movie about killing cats for a profit that I know of. It's pretty much a new take on drama, instead showing a linear storyline it shows seemingly disconnected images which tell the story of a destroyed town and it's residents. Plus, the ending is great in my opinion, It makes great use of the song "crying".

"Plotless trip into the life of some demented white trash people that do things like kill cats to sell their corpses, rip tape off their nipples to make them grow, and pimp their retarded wives to kids. All the while, a boy with pink rabbit ears wanders about aimlessly. Features a real black/death metal soundtrack but otherwise awfully boring and repulsive."

Like the inbred, redneck cousin of Jarmusch's 'Stranger than Paradise,' there's not much in way of plot or goals for the main characters. It's a home movie of the America that God forgot, with the viewer as an active participant. There are few characters with redeeming qualities and I'm not always sure what Korine is trying to say, but I do know that this film puts an ugly truth on display that many in the 'developed world' would sooner pretend doesn't exist. Tender, disturbing, weird. Honest.

Really hit and miss. Some parts are cool, other parts are boring.

Sympathetic portrayal of the dregs of society, or exploitative backwoods freak-show? Probably a bit of both. I vacillated between disgust and morbid curiosity, but whatever may be the case, Gummo is undeniably unique, and often interesting, which is enough for me to value it even with all my doubts.

My initial suspicion (from watching Mr. Lonely) that Korine is better with images than narrative appears to have been accurate. I liked watching it, the photography is beautiful, the editing crisp and perfectly timed, but I was honestly surprised that much of it was scripted.

One of the most idiosyncratically funny movies I've ever seen. I guess that makes me a freak but if so, I'm in good company.

According to the back of the DVD case, Gus van Sant wishes he made this film, but really, no-one could've made this film, not even Harmony Korine. It's one of the strangest crosses between narrative and documentary and acting and real-life and naturalism and cinema verite. It's crass, disgusting, shocking, horrible, weird, sick, and loveable. Someone had to show this side of good ol' America and what a way to show it.

Pointless.

This is an art film, and you will likely either love it or hate it.

12 setembre 2011 - Plantejament i mode de narrar interessants. Els esbossos de personatges de poc protagonisme són colpidors. Sento familiaritat en alguns moments amb aquest món tan salvatgei això em fa veure l'absurditat de totes les convencions. En altres moments, sento una estranyesa absoluta per aquests personatges, sensació de no saber en absolut què els passa pel cap i tot i així em convenç que són possibles, reals (el mateix em passa respecte el director, com deu ser el cap d'aquest tio?)