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Gummo 1997
To my understanding this film isn’t meant to be a realistic portrayal of what life in depressed small-town America is actually like. Instead it draws out characteristic features on that environment - the boredom, the sense of futility - and exaggerates them to create something surreal. An entire town eternally lost in the torpor of an the last weeks of summer vacation
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Crumb 1994
Couldn't look away. So many bizarre and sometimes hilarious twists and turns in such a quiet, low-key documentary. The stakes are continuously raised and things get weirder and more unsettling as the film goes on. One sometimes gets the feeling they are watching a documentary about a serial killer rather than one about a comic book artist. What emerges is an intricate psychological portrait of a very strange, very talented man and his even stranger family.
It was fascinating the…
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