I used to always say people who like James Joyce were lying to seem intelligent. I felt the same for people who said they enjoyed Gummo. Both is usually said by an insufferable bloke you meet on a night out. So it humoured me to hear Korine was inspired by Joyce’s writing to make this flick.
For me this movie sits in a Venn diagram somewhere between a Joyce novel and a jackass movie. A hard watch while eating. But I thoroughly enjoyed this and will come back to revisit. So I eat my hat.
Maybe I’m turning into that insufferable bloke, who knows.
