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Title: It's rare when pretentiousness & white trash mix, but....
Review: This feat is artfully accomplished in Gummo. While it's laudable that the film doesn't preach easy answers to difficult questions regarding the underbelly of white America, it's a wholly ineffectual romp into the muck, and it seems the only point of the film was to nauseate the audience. In case you think I'm squeamish, I thought that Kids was brilliant, and I'm as willing as anyone to sit through some pretty dark stuff, like Requiem For A Dream, Blue Velvet, Elephant Man, etc. But Gummo is different. This is merely a self-aggrandizing muck fest, and there is not one character that elicits even the smallest amount of sympathy from us. And the Rabbit-Boy addition was mere pretentious weirdness. It's really too bad, because I would have liked to like this.
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