kingjulien
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I could only get through the first 5 pages. my environment is not condusive to reading.
I've heard of gummo. please break it down for me, and what you got from the film.
uberdesigner
(May 8 06, 10:56)It's only really exceptional for the first 119 pages. After that it's pretentious crap about Eggers trying out for The Real World San Francisco, and losing out to that putz Judd. There is some funny banter about hanging out with Puck, but it gets tedious quickly.
Julien Donkey Boy is quite disturbing. It's all from the point of view of this schizophrenic who has not only impregnated his older sister, played by Chloe Sevigny, but who also murders another kid in the opening scene. Julien has an older brother who's passion is wrestling - I mean he trains 24/7 in really bizarre ways, and an older father, played by a German friend of mine, who slams cough syrup and abuses his wrestler son. In one pivotal scene, Julien and his older brother stage a wrestling match, and he refers to himself as either kingjulien or Julien the Jabber jabber while hyping himself in a silly Mohammad Ali-ish way. It's all told in these random framments, and a lot of it is horribly imcomprehensible, but there's also a great scene where an albino black dude raps to a bunch of his fellow mentally challenged kids at a bowling alley. It doesn't necessasarily mock these people, it's almost like a science fiction movie where every character is real but then again not human in terms of their eccentricities, if that makes sense.
I don't recommend this to anyone who isn't a fan of Gummo, or who doesn't possess a ridiculous amount of mind altering substances. It is pretty cool visually though, in that it uses a series of still frames to convey parts of the narrative, with these delayed jump cuts, which I personally find intriguing.