Gummo; disturbing, depressing, and sometimes confusing but at the end of it , makes you wonder what is the main difference between what we are as a society and what we think we are. It is definetly a wide open and sincere critic towards the american way of life and mainly it’s pop culture through the eyes of a director who is not afraid of exploring everything we pretend does not exist; human darkest, deepest, ugliest emotions, situations in life we choose not to talk about but, above all, that part of us we deny and despise. In one word: provocative.