{"id":14239,"date":"2011-04-27T06:00:28","date_gmt":"2011-04-27T10:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/?p=14239"},"modified":"2011-04-27T07:26:52","modified_gmt":"2011-04-27T11:26:52","slug":"trash-humpers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/?p=14239","title":{"rendered":"Taking Out the Trash Humpers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/trash-humpers-festival-poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-14240\" title=\"Trash Humpers: 2009 film by Harmony Korine\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/trash-humpers-festival-poster.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onecinephile.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/trash-humpers-festival-poster.jpg 310w, https:\/\/onecinephile.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/trash-humpers-festival-poster-206x300.jpg 206w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 310px) 100vw, 310px\" \/><\/a>In his <a title=\"Roger Ebert's review of Crash (1996)\" href=\"http:\/\/rogerebert.suntimes.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/19970321\/REVIEWS\/703210301\/1023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">three-and-a-half-star review<\/a> of <a title=\"Crash\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/product.asp?sku=D12911&amp;loc=buzzsearch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Crash<\/a>\u2014the 1996 <a title=\"David Cronenberg\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_director.asp?search=David+Cronenberg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">David Cronenberg<\/a> movie about the fetish that combines sexual arousal with car crashes, not the <a title=\"Crash (2005)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/product.asp?sku=D63890\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">2005\u00a0Best Picture<\/a> about the fetish that combines racial disharmony with outrageous narrative coincidence\u2014Roger Ebert claimed that\u00a0Cronenberg&#8217;s\u00a0film was all about a perversion that does not exist.<\/p>\n<p>I looked it up. It appears to be called <a title=\"Wiki entry on symphorophilia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Symphorophilia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">symphorophilia<\/a>. Hey, who would ever doubt Wikipedia? (For sticklers, it does not appear in the DSM-IV, but it would likely be\u00a0included with other unlisted disorders\u00a0under the new designation Paraphilia NOS, or &#8220;not otherwise specified&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>As for the\u00a0grotesque obsession afflicting the gonzo-odd \u201ccult-freak collective\u201d inhabiting filmmaker <a title=\"Harmony Korine\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_director.asp?search=Harmony+Korine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Harmony Korine<\/a>&#8216;s obscure and subversive 2009 movie <a title=\"Trash Humpers\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/product.asp?sku=D07007&amp;loc=buzzsearch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Trash Humpers<\/a>, that&#8217;s another story. Oh, is it <em>ever<\/em> another story.\u00a0The picture made quite a stink\u2014ha ha\u2014at the Copenhagen International Documentary Festival, and while it is obviously not a documentary, exactly how to define the experience as an <em>object d\u2019art<\/em> has been at the heart of much criticism surrounding it.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>For as much questioning as there\u2019s been as to whether or not it is or is not actually constituted as \u201ca film,\u201d I was surprised upon viewing Korine\u2019s latest feature-length provocation that it was easy enough for me to supply the answer: It is most certainly a movie. An <em>art<\/em> movie. A deliberately <em>offensive<\/em> art movie. A movie destined to be seen by few and well-regarded by fewer still.<\/p>\n<p>Count me among those very, very few.<\/p>\n<p>By no means am I a Korine loyalist. I am an admirer of his script for <a title=\"Kids\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/product.asp?sku=D11341&amp;loc=buzzsearch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Kids<\/a>, the cruel drama directed by <a title=\"Larry Clark\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_director.asp?search=Larry+Clark\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Larry Clark<\/a> chronicling a day and night in the lives of New York teenagers untroubled by the consequences of recreational drug use and unprotected sex. On the other hand, his directorial debut <strong>Gummo<\/strong> I found off-putting, when I wasn\u2019t busy being utterly bored. <strong>Julien Donkey-Boy<\/strong> has the virtue of a darkly humorous performance from filmmaker <a title=\"Werner Herzog\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_director.asp?search=Werner+Herzog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Werner Herzog<\/a> (a public admirer of Korine\u2019s works); Korine also scripted director Clark\u2019s <strong>Ken Park<\/strong>, which doubled down on the\u00a0aberrant promiscuities that informed Kids, but to what may legitimately be called a lesser impact as it made brief appearances in U.S. festivals before vanishing from sight.<\/p>\n<p>Korine\u2019s most mainstream effort came with <a title=\"Mister Lonely\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/product.asp?sku=D30334&amp;loc=buzzsearch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Mister Lonely<\/a> in 2007. You might think a filmic conflation of <a title=\"Michael Jackson\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_actor.asp?search=Michael+Jackson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Michael Jackson<\/a>, <a title=\"Charlie Chaplin\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_actor.asp?search=Charlie+Chaplin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Charlie Chaplin<\/a>, <a title=\"Marilyn Monroe\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_actor.asp?search=Marilyn+Monroe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Marilyn Monroe<\/a>, the Pope, <a title=\"Shirley Temple\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_actor.asp?search=Shirley+Temple\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Shirley Temple<\/a>, and Abraham Lincoln\u2014with Herzog making a return to the fold in an extended cameo involving a convent of Third World nuns\u2014would have aroused a greater stir, but by adopting a more conventional set of priorities, Korine perhaps alienated both his hardcore fan base while never effectively bridging the divide between his artistic concerns and those of mass audiences.<\/p>\n<p>So, why not just go for broke once again?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/trash-humpers-sitting.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-14246\" title=\"trash-humpers-sitting\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/trash-humpers-sitting-300x167.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onecinephile.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/trash-humpers-sitting-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/onecinephile.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/trash-humpers-sitting.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Trash Humpers\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/product.asp?sku=D07007&amp;loc=buzzsearch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Trash Humpers<\/a> is produced in the \u201cfound footage\u201d style, representing itself as being shot by one of a group of deviants lurking around a\u00a0Tennessee suburbia. The family members may be related by blood; they might be elderly, or they might just be wearing the creepiest Halloween masks you\u2019ve ever seen; they might be effective stand-ins for the clan from <a title=\"The Texas Chainsaw Massacre\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_title.asp?search=The+Texas+Chainsaw+Massacre\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Texas Chainsaw Massacre<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>They spend their days and nights, yes, humping trash cans\u2014but they\u2019re also drawn to smashing fluorescent light bulbs while dancing vaudeville routines; teaching a manic, chubby young boy who brutalizes baby dolls with a hammer how to insert a razor blade into an apple and convince a stranger to eat it; listening to half-told jokes about \u201cqueers\u201d and minorities screamed aloud by a local friend wearing a neck brace, and\u2026well, I\u2019ve barely started, but you get the idea.<\/p>\n<p>Viewers waiting for a traditional narrative to take shape will wait in vain, but the film has a clear arc of ideas, visuals, and purpose. The debate about whether or not the film is a motion picture per se is specious, as it\u2019s obviously very much crafted. Shots are selected to work with and against one another; rhythms are established by way of action, cutting, sparse and recurring dialogue, visual composition, color, and sound.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_14248\" style=\"width: 306px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/trash-humpers-trash-can.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14248\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14248\" title=\"trash-humpers-trash-can\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/trash-humpers-trash-can-296x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"296\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onecinephile.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/trash-humpers-trash-can-296x300.jpg 296w, https:\/\/onecinephile.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/trash-humpers-trash-can-32x32.jpg 32w, https:\/\/onecinephile.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/trash-humpers-trash-can-64x64.jpg 64w, https:\/\/onecinephile.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/trash-humpers-trash-can-96x96.jpg 96w, https:\/\/onecinephile.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/trash-humpers-trash-can.jpg 425w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 296px) 100vw, 296px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14248\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An object of lust in Trash Humpers (2009)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Shot\u00a0with an ancient VHS camcorder, Trash Humpers is the kind of\u00a0film <a title=\"David Lynch\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_director.asp?search=David+Lynch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">David Lynch<\/a> has been promising to deliver ever since he abandoned celluloid for digital video. Korine (who also serves as a co-star in the film and the cinematographer) takes the limitations of the video image and artfully pushes them to extremes; streetlamps and clumsily aimed flashlights punch\u00a0burning holes through the frame; blocky, muddy picture noise sometimes conceals exactly what is happening and who might be watching, and what their reactions might be; the film\u2019s soundtrack is a masterpiece of naturalistic unease worthy of Lynch\u2019s <a title=\"Eraserhead\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_title.asp?search=Eraserhead\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Eraserhead<\/a>. The score is strictly tinny source music, but it emotionally informs us all the same.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t want to spoil exactly where the film goes at the end for those very, very, very few who might take the plunge with the movie\u2014I will just offer that, as far as claims that it represents a nod towards redemption for these amoral outcasts whose crimes escalate from indecent exposure to vandalism to murder, I\u00a0say\u00a0that much to the contrary,\u00a0the film\u2019s jury is truly out on that score.<\/p>\n<p>The possibility exists at the climax\u00a0that an encounter with life in its purest innocence might actually convert one of the trash humpers to a more humane state of mind. Perhaps the seeds are sown for that transformation at some unforced juncture earlier in the film, but it is my reading that it\u2019s just as likely that the vilest outrage is something the film simply breaks away from just before it happens.<\/p>\n<p>In its stark and uncompromising form, Trash Humpers belongs in a\u00a0small catalog of other disturbing and divisive achievements from the past. I mentioned Lynch\u2019s Eraserhead, but it also takes a rightful place alongside cult films like <a title=\"Pink Flamingos\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_title.asp?search=Pink+Flamingos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Pink Flamingos<\/a>, <a title=\"Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_title.asp?search=Henry%3a+Portrait+of+a+Serial+Killer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer<\/a>, <a title=\"Man Bites Dog\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/product.asp?sku=D37529&amp;loc=buzzsearch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Man Bites Dog<\/a>, <a title=\"The Blair Witch Project\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_title.asp?search=The+Blair+Witch+Project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Blair Witch Project<\/a>, and <a title=\"The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_title.asp?search=The+Cabinet+of+Dr.+Caligari\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, in one respect it shares a real kinship with Caligari. The world of this movie is just\u00a0<em>that<\/em> bizarre and unearthly, manifesting dread out of the most mundane things and so effectively cocooning itself in a wasteland of isolation, obscenity, and madness\u00a0that it\u00a0evokes a\u00a0landscape we are not likely to see again in any other film.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe your response is <em>good, \u2018cause I don\u2019t watch that kind of trash anyway<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Fair\u2019s fair. This is a movie made to be inhospitable to most, so ignoring it may be your best bet unless you have a real taste for experimental cinema that violates\u00a0mainstream sensibilities with rude and spiky determination.\u00a0As is often the case with films like this, though, there\u00a0exists a constituency for the view that such \u201cdegenerate\u201d projects ought never to be made, which plows across that thick boundary line separating polite critique from insipid authoritarianism.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s what is\u00a0<em>truly<\/em> offensive.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/trash-humpers-stop-sign.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14247\" title=\"trash-humpers-stop-sign\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/trash-humpers-stop-sign.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onecinephile.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/trash-humpers-stop-sign.jpg 500w, https:\/\/onecinephile.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/trash-humpers-stop-sign-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his three-and-a-half-star review of Crash\u2014the 1996 David Cronenberg movie about the fetish that combines sexual arousal with car crashes, not the 2005\u00a0Best Picture about the fetish that combines racial disharmony with outrageous narrative coincidence\u2014Roger Ebert claimed that\u00a0Cronenberg&#8217;s\u00a0film was all&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":14240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1540,1466],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-14239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-staff-notes","tag-cult-films","tag-documentaries"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Taking Out the Trash Humpers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Trash Humpers: A look at the 2009 drama film directed by Harmony Korine about a &quot;loser-gang cult-freak collective&quot; in Nashville, TN\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/?p=14239\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Taking Out the Trash Humpers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Trash Humpers: A look at the 2009 drama film directed by Harmony Korine about a &quot;loser-gang cult-freak collective&quot; in Nashville, TN\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/?p=14239\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"MovieFanFare\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Movies-Unlimited\/88679322377\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2011-04-27T10:00:28+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2011-04-27T11:26:52+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/trash-humpers-festival-poster.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"310\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"450\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"George D. 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