try looking in the back alleys of small, rural towns void of electricity and paved roads
I would probably want to see this more than anything else out there.
I have seen everything by korine even the short films and blaine documentary.
I have extremely high hopes for this
I don’t know where you’ll find it, but don’t stop looking. I saw it at the LFF last year.
I heard somewhere that there will be a premiere in NYC sometime in May, but that may be just a rumour.
ah, here it is (from Trash Humpers on Facebook) : ’ Trash Humpers premieres in NYC on May 7th at Cinema Village!’
I’m pretty much indifferent to this.
Harmony Korine’s films to me seem like nothing much more than shock cinema. But he has his legions of fans, so maybe I’m the idiot. I’ve seen two of his works. I felt that Gummo had pretty close to zero merit. It is one of the very few films I rated 1/5 at this site. Korine seems to hate its characters, so I don’t really understand why the film was made. And it’s a film that seems to be very prejudiced against poor uneducated white people—who are really the last punching bags in the US. I can’t imagine a film depicting any other demographic group in such manner and getting away with it. Julien Donkey Boy wasn’t great either, but it did have a couple of sublime moments—like the one in which the black albino dude starts rapping and the others join in.
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Blue K u say u are indifferent yet u post three times.
Strong indifference I disagree about his characters but we discussed this already
Well, sometime my mouse can’t read my emotions and gets stuck, lol. Sorry about the triple post.
I’m indifferent as to whether I find this film or not. If I never did, I wouldn’t care. If it comes my way, I might watch it. I don’t know.
maybe yr mouse rebels out of love for Korine.
Well, I can’t deny that Korine is indeed talented. I just don’t know why he chose to film his characters doing nothing but the most asinine things in Gummo. They’re either torturing cats, breaking chairs and tables, or engaging in bare knuckle fist fights for no apparent reason. The only time they’re not doing something asinine is to make some clever cultural reference, which just goes against the flow of the film. It’s like the only non-asinine moments are to serve as reminders that Korine knows his cinema and culture.
Blue, judging from what you’ve said, I don’t think you’d like Trash Humpers. Korine’s stuff is somewhat of an acquired taste.
But, I don’t know, maybe you could love it. ;)
Well, the clever cultural references (that extend to the title and the casting of linda manz among many other things) show that there is intelligence even within the destructive or the banal. I got to hand it to a kid who can make a living killing cats, perform Durante routines, get himself sex and still be fairly empathetic to the people in his circle (his father for instance, the kid with the comotose grandmother). As I said before Gummo was named after the lost Marx Brother (in that he chose not to perform and their is no record of him like that of his brothers) and the whole film is about being lost after tragedy (a tornado) and these people are very much on their own, much like the children of Kids (1995) but these kids are not sociopathic they are fairly creative and interesting and empathetic
Gee, you didn’t see the similarity between the use of bunny boy in Gummo and Ozu’s use of the sake bottle in his films?
Gummo was a celebration of the bonds between those people – he wasn’t making fun of crackers.
weeeeeeeeeeeeeeee dp!
Well, it’s one of these films that divides people. Den, I see your perspective. But I just find it simply too contrived—seriously, a kid killing cats and selling them to a local Chinese restaurant would know of Jimmy Durante? And do his routines? Really? How likely is that? Linda Manz’s character makes some clever reference to, which I can’t remember what it exactly was. The way I feel about it is that I don’t want to know how clever Harmony Korine is. I want the characters to act in ways that are consistent with their condition. The clever references speak for Harmony Korine, not the characters in the actual diegesis of the film.
there are too many good films to see that offer the same level of empathy for bleak desolation. It seems as though Korine has a “shock first and justify later” mentality.
Sek I guess I just dont find anything shocking about the films. I find them hopeful
“a kid killing cats and selling them to a local Chinese restaurant would know of Jimmy Durante? And do his routines? Really? How likely is that?”
People are complex I worked at Walmart to put myself thru college with a BA in philosophy.
I can tell you a bunch about feminist thought begining with John Stuart Mills The Subjection of Women.
I can also tell u every lyric to Bushwick Bill’s songs and Pat Boone’s. I can also play the harp decently.
Xenia, Ohio is literally nothing like what was shown in Gummo so that might change your mind on his creativity a little. Still I find all his films half baked in their execution.
The characters’in Gummo? You mean you didn’t know people like that growing up?
Sounds like you missed more than the point of the film …..
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“a kid killing cats and selling them to a local Chinese restaurant would know of Jimmy Durante? And do his routines? Really? How likely is that?”
Durante’s films are shown on TV, once you saw him you never forget him. I got introduced to him at a young age just from watching to much TV.
Dying to see Trash Humpers :(
Salem did u ever see reruns of that show he did in the 70s with the Lennon sisters?
Funny stuff.
My point is the characters do two types of things, those only. 1. Act completely asinine and sociopathic. e.g. killing cats, cooking them for food and selling it, pimping out their mentally challenged wife, paying some dude to fuck his mentally challenged wife, get in full bare knuckle fights with your buddy for no reason, break furniture… Does ANYONE in this town stop and think, “damn, this is fucked up.” 2. Make clever cultural references.
What about…uh…people just acting not freakishly or not as a mere medium to express how clever Korine is? Korine fetishizes “freakness” for its own sake. Come on.
“did u ever see reruns of that show he did in the 70s with the Lennon sisters?”
Nopes sadly never did, only some clips on youtube. Don’t know if they ever aired that show over here.
i disagree I find them hopeless, Den :/ humping trash cans? i cant even understand them let alone connect with them…
where is the hope?
1. Act completely asinine and sociopathic.
2. Make clever cultural references.
Those two things make up many teenagers I have known in my life.
I am naming my kid Durate.
My fiancee is on board with this
seek I have not seen trash humpers so I can not comment on that specifically
plus I know that it is a change of pace film for him anyway
Reel Lover
I’m getting desperate now, and the hunt is now my main motivation to watch this film. Where can I see this?