everything after youth is nothing….
I’m surprised to see that Warped Records are distributing this in the UK, it might be the best movie they’ve put their name to.
When is Trash Humpers coming out on DVD, I tried to go see it the theateres but the day I go to 13th Street I think it was the Cinema Village theater the guy in the ticket booth is like its not playing anymore? WTF it was there for a week, I was pissed.
@ Rudy… It appears the DVD is set for release on Sept. 20.
http://buy.trashhumpers.com/pages/Trash-Humpers_1.aspx?pageid=102
Damn, That kid just gives off an aura of religious extremes. When I first saw it I though maybe he was a member of one of those more hardcore Jewish sects basically right away.
Watching Trash Humpers tomorrow via netflix
You would have to be reaching to find meaning in T.Humpers imo. it’s like Gummo on a budget but with much less to say.
it’s worth a look for the curious though.
it’s like Gummo on a budget but with much less to say
Sounds like a winner!
Meant very little :) The point was explicitly stated near the film’s end, and the point is fine… but it’s still just Harmony Korine’s Kooks, and you have to like those esoteric weirdos to like Korine’s work – rather, you have to be able to look watch them and find that intrinsically entertaining. I will say I wasn’t able to get certain lines out of my head for days… “Make it! Make it! Don’t fake it!” And those were mildly funny.
I listened to some interview online between Korine and Gaspar Noe, and while I have my opinions about Noe, Korine sounded like a silly little boy compared to him (and nevermind that he was kissing Noe’s ass the entire time)… Noe, who is at least highly technologically innovative.
Since the OP poses the question “did Trash Humpers mean anything to me?,” I’d answer that individually, it did. I can’t make a case for it as a great or important film, but I can discuss my reaction to it.
I grew up and still live in a mostly lower middle class town in Central NJ. When Kids came out in my middle school years, it really didn’t do much as a cautionary tale; that looked fun, though sex, drugs, and bored recklessness already had places in the lives of my town’s teens. I knew richer and poorer kids than I who thought the film’s lifestyle looked cool or already related to it from their own lives.
Trash Humpers kind of evokes the feeling of realizing your town’s adults behave like that too. They’re…you know… adults… and they’re drunk and high and breaking things…screwing…shouting incoherencies…getting in fights…On another (assuredly unintended) level, I watched the dvd of Trash Humpers a few weeks ago as the Celebration, FL, murder & police standoff/suicide cases unfolded, and having seen those behaviors from adults, it seemed kind of appropriate.
I can imagine there’s always been some boredom or debauchery in traditional senior centers, but there’s an odd (and to me, kind of grotesque) movement with planned over-55 communities for people to retire into a certain socailly sterile debauchery, retiring into isolated worlds and taking up odd group behaviors and ill-considered sex & drug use. Having seen such behaviors among “adults” in the real world, considering them among isolated adults doesn’t sound shocking at all.
This Korine is a real winner
“A winner doesn’t shiver.”
I saw this more as a science fiction film and i think it captured very well some late modernity nihilist fantasy. Why is this (and Gummo) with or without flaws not hailed as a postmodern masterpiece like White Noise or Gravitys Rainbow? It was pretty much like reading T.S. Eliots The Waste Land, but more straight-foward.
“make it, make it, make it, dont take it.”
This is where auteur theory is helpful. Korine eschews the normal narrative form for stringing images together. There is no real story here. The message seems to be: life does continue on, despite trash humping or as the result of trash humping.
It meant something to me, it brings me to a crystalising of something simple which helps me go on. I watch all the great documentaries on the ages of britain and the universe and ancient civilisations and Lennon and Lenin and trench warfare and microcosims and majesty and poverty etc etc etc I feel an existential unravelling within myself, an “overwhelment”… then I watch Trash Humpers and I feel comforted in pondering that my life might be as incidental and meaningless and random as what’s reflected in roaming about humping trash but it still is so get up out of bed and just fucking do it.
I can’t tell if this was genius or one of the worst movies ever made. It disgusted me, but I can’t stop thinking about it. More often than not, I was on the floor laughing.
They humped everything.
What is wrong with Harmony Korine? He’s insane.
but I can’t stop thinking about it:genius
Taylor Kyles
Trash Humpers provoked the thought of What are you responsible for in society that you dislike or hate?
That’s for me. I liked the scenes and vignettes. And the re hashing of Korine’s “Life has no plot” bit. It’s a cool experience in theaters.
If anybody wants to answer…
Why do you think Korine showed only the two extremes of human age? Old and young.