The Brown Bunny
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hey rasko, i see where your coming from.
A friend of mine who is as much a cinephile as i am and whose opnions i greatly respect told me she fell asleep watching this!
I guess you have to be of a certain temprament to appreciate the movie.
I dont know about the "Gallo just wants to be cool" bit, i think he really put out a vulnerable character in this film. But the way he brandishes his name across the titles
makes people auto-pilot want to tear him down. That's his own fault.I'll tell you what i saw in it, for what its worth.
I remember seeing an interview with Gallow talking about his favourite films, and he mentioned the Yasujiro Ozu film, Late Spring.
Without going into that film too much, its basically about a man who has a spinster daughter who wont get married cos she wants to look after her dad, so the dad concocts this bullshit story how he's found a wife just to force his daughter to get married and then finally he plans this big wedding for his daughter.
The film meanders like your average melodramatic soap opera, completely to type. But then there's the scene at the end where the father sits alone at the table after his daughters
wedding. When the house is completely empty. And he poors himself a drink. And he gives an exhuasted sigh. And then it occurs to you, that that's what the entire film was about. THAT ONE MOMENT. That one pure moment of incredible insight into the human condition. That last 3mins or so of the final scene, that throws you into the state of mind of the main character.Gallow said that after seeing that film he decided all his films are going to be about THE MOMENT. Everything that happens for 90mins will all be concentrated into giving the impact of the last last final moment which gives meaning to everything that happened before.
And thats what I saw in the final scene in the motel room, the blowjob scene. That one devastating moment where he laid the incredibly hurt and emotionally fraught state of the character to bare, that just becomes obvious like "aha!" and then kind of sinks into you like a slow realisation where every long tracking shot, every shot of him on the motorbike, seems to be a preperation for that.
I thought it was beautifully done.
But then, i was slightly stoned watching the film, so i guess the narcotic you chose whilst watching it gives you a different sort of appreciation :)