Oh my god, what the heyeeell is going on with this movie? Korine's latest film is a cinematic quasar. It's a jamboree of mad mad footage filmed as if on VHS: you actually get the auto-tracking banner come up on the screen a couple of times - which is pure nostalgia for me. It's meant to maybe be some weird found tape that you could have got in a job lot at a house sale or something.
You've got these three people, two young men and a young woman, out cruising some semi-rural Southern suburbs, wearing masks that make them look liked wrinkled pensioners. They delight in sheerly bizarre behaviour, one of my very favourite scenes is the trio in a car park throwing up these fluorescent light strips way up into the air and then watching them smash. Also as the title of the movie implies, they hump trash cans. It's not all sick yet harmless frolics though, they do some pretty bad stuff too, although that's maybe for the viewer to interpret (what is this artifact we're seeing?).
I've always liked movies where you get people "spassing", the von Trier's movie the Idiots, and the scene with the daughter and the nurse in Fassbinder's Chinese Roulette. And I recommend spassing to you too, do a little spassing, it is damned good fun, just do some dumb stuff, give yourself a break! This movie is a kind of dark homage to spassing. The point I think that is being made is, well OK, if you're going to say that this way of life that these people are following is stupid, how about your nine-to-five two-point-four-children prayers-on-Sunday life? I know which I prefer.
The one great part of spassing is lunatic ditties, and I was reminded of being a kid again listen to these ones endlessly repeated, "Three little devils jumped over the wall, chopped of their heads and murdered them all"; "Make it, make it, don't take it, suck it, suck it, don't **** it".
I wasn't shocked by anything the movie had to offer, however it is clear that this is going to offend a lot of folks, and the ending is really very deliberately provocative, so much so that I was giggling. If you showed this to the average bible-belter, they'd have an aneurysm.
Pure genius.
You've got these three people, two young men and a young woman, out cruising some semi-rural Southern suburbs, wearing masks that make them look liked wrinkled pensioners. They delight in sheerly bizarre behaviour, one of my very favourite scenes is the trio in a car park throwing up these fluorescent light strips way up into the air and then watching them smash. Also as the title of the movie implies, they hump trash cans. It's not all sick yet harmless frolics though, they do some pretty bad stuff too, although that's maybe for the viewer to interpret (what is this artifact we're seeing?).
I've always liked movies where you get people "spassing", the von Trier's movie the Idiots, and the scene with the daughter and the nurse in Fassbinder's Chinese Roulette. And I recommend spassing to you too, do a little spassing, it is damned good fun, just do some dumb stuff, give yourself a break! This movie is a kind of dark homage to spassing. The point I think that is being made is, well OK, if you're going to say that this way of life that these people are following is stupid, how about your nine-to-five two-point-four-children prayers-on-Sunday life? I know which I prefer.
The one great part of spassing is lunatic ditties, and I was reminded of being a kid again listen to these ones endlessly repeated, "Three little devils jumped over the wall, chopped of their heads and murdered them all"; "Make it, make it, don't take it, suck it, suck it, don't **** it".
I wasn't shocked by anything the movie had to offer, however it is clear that this is going to offend a lot of folks, and the ending is really very deliberately provocative, so much so that I was giggling. If you showed this to the average bible-belter, they'd have an aneurysm.
Pure genius.