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GUMMO

GUMMO



Director:

 Harmony Korine

Stars:

 Nick Sutton, Jacob Sewell, Lara Tosh
genre : art house social realism 





"I purposefully try to make films in that grey area, where things are morally ambiguous. It's like life: good people do horrible things, and bad people do good things, and there's beauty in horror and horror in beauty." - Harmony Korine

the film follows a group of people living in a small tornado struck town in Ohio.

This film might not follow any real narrative but I think it imitates life the most realistic. The film is filled with shocking imagery from killing cats to just plain unsettling human behavior. Within these cinematic images truth about our society can be found, as a viewer I had to take my rose colored glasses off and really see the world for what it is (in some parts of the world or even fictional) rather then what I think is socially acceptable. 

Director Harmony Korine is an artist at own right. If you will like this film or not, the imagery will be next to impossible to forget. This to me is what makes this film good, the fact that even after watching it, I still find myself pondering on the images portrait on the screen. Questioning my own social standards. The moral line between good and bad get blurry while watching the film.

This film is defiantly on my list of favorites. 



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