Gummo

So, as much as I have tried…there really isn’t much to the plot of this movie. To sum it up, I guess you could say its primarily about a group of kids living in a small down, pretty much destroyed by a prior tornado. Everyone is living in trailers, killing, torturing, and selling cats for meat. That’s actually a huge part of the movie. The torturing, drowning, and killing of cats by these kids.
The movie is just really really strange.
I’m not entirely sure what the point of it was, or what I was supposed to get out of it.
At first glance I would have said that it’s trying to depict life in a trailer park kinda atmosphere? But I’m not sure if that’s realistic…I just…I don’t really know.
I did like a lot of the characters!
I thought the three sisters were probably the most likable characters…they were cute…naïve…
The bunny boy was also kinda funny.
I liked the scene where the…I would venture to say mentally disabled? Person shaves off her eyebrows…
And the mother of the funny looking kid.
There were a couple of really random scenes that just kinda disturbed me…and surprisingly it was none of the ones involving cats lol.
At one point, this kid is taking a bath…in filthy water, and his mother brings him spagetti and milk to eat while he’s having a bath…
So, he’s eating…and she’s shampooing his hair…and she goes to the door to buy a chocolate bar off of some kid…gives it to him. He drops it…in the water…and then eats it, while soggy chocolate stuff drips out the side of his mouth…and then the scene just continues…
I don’t know, I think I’ll always remember that scene…I just found that really gross…
And the random bacon taped to the wall…
There is just a lot of random shit :P
Anyway, recommendation wise, I think I would definitely recommend people to watch it…I think a lot of people will hate it…
I think its one of those movies that people either love or hate…no real grey area…
Actually…I feel kinda grey about it though :P Uhhh…I think it just needs to marinate…
I’m trying to figure out if it was stupid stupid…or stupid genius :P
I’m not sure.
But it’s so different, and SO strange…I’d recommend it for sure.

6.7/10

The City of Lost Children

So, basically, this crazy scientist guy is stealing children to…harvest their dreams I guess you could say? So, first of all…I guess I should rewind a bit…This man, an incredible inventor guy, had no children, no family…so he decided to create some for himself. He created a wife, five or six sons (I can’t remember) who look identical to him, this giant brain, and basically the most intelligent man on the face of the earth. The thing is, something…I’m not sure if this little fact was omitted or if I just totally missed it…but I’m not sure exactly WHAT it was…anyway. Something put a curse on this little family that he created. His wife was super short, his children fell asleep spontaneously, the brain was prone to migraines, and lastly, the intelligent man, could not dream. SO because of this, he is ageing extremely fast…and attempts to steal children’s dreams so he can finally experience what it is to dream.
The main character One is this big, simple, ‘strong man’ whose little brother is kidnapped by this scientist. He really reminded me of like…Will Ferell on steroids…and like, a good actor :P. Most of the movie is about him going and searching for his brother…
He builds this extremely creepy (in my opinion) relationship with this little girl. She’s helping him find his little brother, actually, she’s the one who ultimately saves him in the end. She is obviously in love with him…you know, little girl crush…but its HIM that just creeped me out insanely ughh… :P It was weird.
I mean they’re so many weird things…these conjoined twins, evil fleas…really strange shit.
It was in French…so, unfortunately, I wasn’t as focused on the overall picture as I would have liked to be…it had a really cool tone to it, and I’d definitely want to watch it again to be able to see more of the visuals…now that I know exactly what’s going on.
It was overall really good (: I liked it…the ending was a bit predictable. All the “bad guys” get blown up, and One, his little brother, and his new little…friend…are all safe and happy :P
It was good though. Unique. I liked it. It actually reminded me of a really fucked up, and good, Golden Compass…the whole child stealing idea :P

7.5/10