So it was just some odd coincidence that I got this movie in the mail the day after Michael Jackson's death. I added it to my que awhile back and totally forgot about it. I just got around to watching it tonight because with mj everywhere on tv it just seemed a bit overbearing to watch a movie with someone impersonating him throughout. Im happy I finally watched it and didnt send it back unwatched (a dirty ocd netflix habit I need to get out of) because this shit changed me.
I saw Gummo when I was about 24 and it actually helped in making me the introverted prick I am today. As it was a first impression kind of evening with a large group of people, artsy, college, part-time barista types, little bit of buzz about this really underground indie movie Gummo that I had a copy of (I just ordered it off Amazon so I didnt think it was all that underground but these kids were caffeinated) and they all came over to watch it. They left mostly horrified. One girl was crying, boyfriends were pissed it was just an awful night scoring me the moniker of John and Anne-Marie's creepy basement dwelling roommate. However awful they thought it was I absolutely loved it, and when the lights came up I was all like Holy shit! you guys was that not amazing!.! only to be met with people trying to get the fuck away from me and the cat comatose grandma killing movie as soon as they could. They all loved Kids for its gritty raw look at teen sex but I guess a gritty raw look at white trash was just more then they could handle.
Harmony Korine has moved me again this evening. Of course the timing doesnt help because I am so dam sappy so everything involving mj was poignant but it was the stuff that didnt involve mj that really worked here. About 15 minutes in just as I started to really get sucked into Diego Luna's dreamy soft performance as someone who wants to be someone else things seem to go random but I am so happy I stuck with this because Herzog and the nuns is where Harmony has flat stopped fucking around. The movie is tight technically shot with that blink and you will miss the beautiful little details kind of thing which I think lends such a sense of realism its like Im not watching this on a screen shot by a camera but experiencing it with my own eyes live. I think thats what just freaked people out about Gummo, getting that close to those awful dirty gross people was too much. But here I feel spiritually lifted after spending time with the cast of Mister Lonely and I dont get lifted often. And of course the sound is like all of Korine's films dead on with original music by Jason Spaceman and The Sun City Girls (2 separate entities).
Im curious how I will feel about this movie when I see it years from now when mj is just some joke and is pretty much forgotten. I mean some of Luna's dialogue was so very sad and very meaningful in light of mj's death that I know a month ago it would not have hit me as deeply as it did this evening. Everything just a bit more surreal then it would have been given a death free mj. Dancing on a stage with mostly dead celebrities to Cheek to Cheek (heaven, im in heaven) which just makes my mind race with possibilities. Im sure in mj's heaven he is hanging out with people like Charlie Chaplin, Shirley Temple and Little Red Riding Hood though not a dead celebrity this is mj's heaven so he can do whatever he wants. I wonder if mj saw this movie and what he thought of it?
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