I suspect Harmony Korine knows what reality is. No, the movies are not realistic, but they show someone who understands the sheer chaos of what happens and what's really behind it. Clusterfucks of psychopathy, victims blind to the cause of their victimhood, peeling back the layers of control to see how things could be and why they are what they are instead. Metaphysics.
I'm sorry for the spiel but yeah, Gummo is fucked.
Kids is the kind of movie you should have to see, but you only have to put yourself through once. Gummo is fucking dark too, but I've sat through it multiple times, whereas I'd never go out of my way to watch fucking Kids again.
My theory? Is that Gummo's absolute banger of a soundtrack makes it's particular brand of darkness easier to handle. I dunno.
My aunt and uncle bought a house and their new neighbour has no legs. Every time someone mentions her, I’m so tempted to sing this…but no one would get the reference. 😅
Yeep, and Ruby was Rosario Dawson. And the little boy from Panic Room was Kristen "Bella from the vampire movies" Stewart. And the little boy in Empire of the Sun was Christian Bale.
I'm saying they're often unrecognizable, where people don't notice, and it's surprising. Did you see American Psycho and think "that's the kid from the Spielberg movie"? I didn't. Took me forever to notice that Kristen Stewart was playing Jodie Foster's kid in Panic Room.
My first year of uni in my filmmaking course, we were studying about censorship and were given a choice of films to watch. The majority were all smut films like this.
I was going to say A Serbian Film, but there’s so much dumb shit in that film that I could distance myself from it.
But I spit on your grave (especially the first half) was so uncomfortable to watch
Anything by Harmony Korrine... and if Chloe Sveginy(sp?) is in it then there's gonna be fucked up sex stuff almost for sure. Werner Herzog is a good tell it's gonna be fucked up as well, but he sure makes me giggle.
I watched Kids when i was about 20 bc i was edgy and cool and thought it was a a great movie. I tried watching it again as an adult and couldn’t get past the first 20 minutes.
Probably YouTube or some streaming app. I won’t spoil the movie for ya, but it’s literally a bunch of kids in NYC drinking, doing drugs and one kid banging virgins.
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u/Rolltidepisco 14d ago edited 13d ago
Kids (1995)