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Title: Sick and plotless garbage
Review: The young director, Harmony Korine, who made his debut with the controversal movie "Kids" got even more wierd and sick with Gummo. There's not even a plot, just a loose collage of scenes which is supposedly a documentary about a fictional town in Tennessee that had experienced a tornado. The acting is mostly improvised by unknowns and many of the scenes are grusome. Teenagers kill stray cats and sell them to the local butcher and then go out and sniff glue. A retarded girl is prostituted by her brother. A drunken homosexual pass is made at a dwarf. Two young men have a real fight and beat each other bloody. Cruelty is everywhere and every scene is a shocker. The cinematography is often grainy and blurred and voices are muffled and unclear. I'm the curious type and so I wanted to see this video. I was prepared to be shocked. But I was also bored because the story just didn't go anyplace. I'm surprised it got any kind of distribution at all. For the barf bag crowd only.
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