Saturday, September 18, 2004

The Brown Bunny
I went and saw "the worst movie ever committed to film" last night; Vincent Gallo's The Brown Bunny. I love Vincent Gallo. The Brown Bunny is amazing.

I can completely understand why people would hate this movie ... it's paced super slow, the entire cast consists of maybe 10 people, there is probably 2 pages of diologue in the whole thing and it's difficult to even unerstand what the hell is going on until the last 15 minutes ... But still, it's good. There are huge expanses of time where it's just a camera focused in close on Vincent Gallo's face while he drives a van through some desolate piece of highway. It's not exactly an action packed film. It sort of reminded me of Garden State, only instead of being a predictable and stupid piece of self indulgent crap, it's an interesting, weird, smart and self indulgent piece of awesomeness. Every moment in the movie is connected, but you never get it until the key piece of information is revealed at the very end. I need to see it again.

I think I liked this movie and hated Garden State because I have a background in art. I can't really explain it super eloquently, but Zack Braffs shitty movie just reminded me of every "film and video program" final project I've ever seen. It's like he sat there and thought to himself, "People might not get this ... I better explain it." Vincent Gallo doesn't give a shit if you don't get it and that is awesome. It just makes it that much better for anyone who does. Lots of people like to write Vincent Gallo off as some self loving pretentious artist. He is. But he's also a god damned genius so he get's a pass. Need proof that the dude is a genius? Read this interview he did ... with himself.