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There is life, there is ruined life,
and there's the "life" in Gummo.
Try to imagine a migraine night-
mare mutually dreamed by Howard
Stern, Robert Crumb and the most
pathetic rubes in Sling Blade.
Words like seamy, creepy, rotten and
white trash don't quite do it. Gummo is
about those stuck below the floor-
boards of life in a town (named as
Xenia, Ohio) where we are greeted by
kids singing profanity. Then a boy
drowns a cat, and another boy ambles
around half-naked, wearing pink rabbit
ears, and is bullied by boys with guns.
The girls walk on the wild side,
too. There are a pair of frost-blond
tramps (one played by Chloe Sevigny)
who strut and try to enlarge their
breasts by applying and then ripping
off masking tape.
There's a homely girl enjoying her
first "feel-up," until the boy blithely
discovers a lump and sends her into
cancer panic. There's a very large albi-
no who "loves" Patrick Swayze "to
death." And there is a retarded whore,
pimped by her brother, who looks like
a bloated, beached Barbie.
The weirdest kid, geeky Solomon
(Jacob Reynolds), sells dead cats to a
butcher who shops them to a Chinese
restaurant that is, alas, going out of
business (cuisine too exotic?). Solly's
mom (Linda Manz) serves him lurid
spaghetti as he soaks in a dirty tub, and
cheerfully threatens to shoot him when
he doesn't smile as she tap dances.
It's a movie that, of course, has an
arm-wrestling contest, and then the
drunken oafs wreck the furniture. It's
a movie that, of course, has a black
dwarf with a huge head and a pro-
Israel T-shirt.
It's a movie in which, of course, a
door-to-door charity appeal is a scam,
parental child abuse is rampant, and
porn is stashed in many drawers. And,
of course, there's racism and homo-
phobia and drugs and witchcraft and
mutilation and abuse of the infantile,
the elderly and the helpless.
Director Harmony Korine, who is
male and 23, scripted Larry Clarke's
Kids and now goes for the total squat-
drop. He's got a "take," and his style
(often grainy, impulsive, with a refined
tracking shot of toilet stalls) fits his
subject matter. What's the point? Stay
out of Xenia.
Some slum-downs are astonishing
(Seventeen), even art (the new Boogie
Nights). Some are inane (Shakes the
Clown), portentous (River's Edge), dis-
mally dull (The Cement Garden), valid-
ly disturbing (Jail Bait) or dubiously
revealing (Welcome to the Dollhouse).
Korine seems a savvy voyeur, very
hip to Godard and modern "decon-
struction" technique, who eagerly
barbed-wires together his "find" of
gross moments and sad losers. He's
made a movie less for cinema van-
guardists than for TV-fed geeks who
like to laugh at the humiliatingly dis-
advantaged, the moronically kitschy
and decultured. It's lumpen-
Letterman, even sub-Stern.
Jacob Reynolds plays the geeky Solly,
whose mom (Linda Manz) serves him
lurid spaghetti as he soaks in a dirty tub,
in Harmony Korine's "Gummo."
I came away thinking of dead cats.
And of Korine — sweet Harmony! —
in a lions' den, covered in catnip and
wearing bunny ears.
Rated R.
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— Reviewed by David Elliott
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David Elliott is film critic for The
San Diego Union-Tribune.