Posted by Frank Reynolds at spider-wj042.proxy.aol.com on November 27, 1999 at 00:12:40:
In Reply to: Q's for Kevin or Vince - Harmony Korine... posted by ArriMan on November 26, 1999 at 22:21:07:
I saw GUMMO two years ago, and I honestly still can't decide if I liked it or not. I was both fascinated and sickened by the way the white trash in that movie lived....could they have homes that were any more disgusting? And didn't they ever throw anything away? Or clean the stove? And that disgusting brown tubwater that that kid took a bath in...I was ready to puke. But it fascinated me that people would live like this.
I did find Korine's filmmaking style a little off-putting..I thought a lot of it was being arty for arty's sake, but the lifestyle of the white-trash characters overcame that for me.
However, I didn't care for JULIAN DONKEY-BOY at all. He basically still had that same arty filmmaking style, but the subject matter wasn't nearly as interesting.