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Strategies & Market Trends : Groundhog Day -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (1984)	4/20/2002 7:54:04 PM
From: Alan Smithee	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6346

This is what MMPA has to say about Gummo: Rated R for pervasive depiction of anti-social behavior of juveniles,including violence, substance abuse,sexuality and language. The San Francisco Examiner review say: Sant is a big "Gummo" fan, and finds the influence of Fellini, Arbus and Godard in it. That's a considerable reach. Korine's trying to offer a radical vision of rotten America, but the whole thing feels warmed over. (Interesting casting note: Linda Manz -- where has she been since "Days of Heaven"? -- pops up as a tap-dancing mom.) The LA Times says: "Gummo" is a series of exercises in gross-out humor and outright depravity, all of which are nothing but what they say they are: postcards from hell. Korine isn't editorializing. This isn't agitprop cinema. It's button-pushing, pure and simple, made on the cynical assumption that the only way to get our attention is to make a mess. Your comment about not watching it unless you enjoy watching car wrecks is apt. I think I'll pass. (ps-DSL back up. I'm still down to one computer however. Whereas I couldn't get the other machine to boot before, now, after a trip to the computer fixit guys, the power supply seems to be uncooperative. Even the little fan thingies are not spinning).