Movie Substrate · Film
Gummo (1997)
★ 6.7 · 708 ratings on TMDB
Prepare to visit a town you'd never want to call home.
Teenagers Solomon and Tummler kill time in Xenia, Ohio, a small town that has never recovered from the tornado that ravaged the community in the 1970s.
DirectorHarmony Korine
The emergence reading
Gummo keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing poverty, alienation, violence, decay, marginalization.
zero-distanceUSpovertyalienationviolencedecaymarginalization
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