Bunny Boy And Harmony Korine

Bunny Boy and Harmony Korine The title of the movie gives the viewer an idea of what the film will be about: redneck inbreds. Harmony Korine wrote and directed Gummo: he made the movie to please himself and then the audience. He claims to be a realist writer/filmmaker when he states “realism, even if fictional, should be the dominant mode in filmmaking” after the screening of Gummo. The directorial style of Korine throughout the movie intended to make the film feel uncomfortable by forcing the viewer to confront the ugliness of the world created and represented in his film. The film is similar to a documentary. Daily events of the people of Xenia are shown and Korine is able to address the themes of poverty, violence, prostitution, homosexuality, …show more content…
He then becomes a victim to the violence and cruelty of the world, the same way Korine was victimized as a child and as an adult in the film industry. Bunny Boy is insulted and intimidated by the two boys wielding the guns, but the real bullets are in the words they say to Bunny Boy the same way words were said about Korine’s style of directing. This scene represents Korine’s childhood and adulthood, it represents his childhood because maybe he was excluded and made fun of by the other children because of his mysteriousness. It represents his adulthood as a filmmaker because he is not given the chance to show his talents and it was hard to understand Korine’s filmmaking style of realism. Bunny Boy does not have any malice in his speech or actions, just naivety and, ignorance caused by the absence of a parent. Pessimism is a theme in this scene because the two foul-mouthed cowboy kids view Bunny Boy as a bad thing or a threat to them, without getting to know Bunny Boy. Fear and aggressiveness are products of not …show more content…
There are parents in the movie but they do not act as parents of the children, they act as friends. Bunny Boy has no definite friends throughout the movie; therefore, he has no influence of a parent in his life. Korine hides this message well because he shows that some of the children of the movie have parents but they do not act as parents, they act as their friends. The scene in the kitchen where Tummler is arm wrestling and drinking beer shows how the parents don’t influence the children’s lives. The father is supplying his own son with beer and constantly curses throughout the scene. When one of the men in the scene loses to the dwarf in an arm wrestling contest, the man that lost starts to beat and break a kitchen chair. Tummler’s father should have told the man to stop but instead he begins encouraging that type of behavior. Parents provide a disciplinary structure so that their children don’t grow up to be insignificant to society, unlike the children in the movie that lack motivation except the tennis player who is on