Brown Bunnies

I like to think I have good taste in film. My favorite movie of all time is Pulp Fiction and I’ve been known to quote it spontaneously from time to time. But sometimes my taste ventures toward the absurd, disgusting, and utterly depressing. I saw “Irréversible” just because I heard there was a 15 minute scene where Monica Bellucci gets raped up the ass in a tunnel by a gay pimp. It was so brutal and I liked it because it pushed the boundaries of film. The viewer was forced to watch that long drawn out scene. Talk about uncomfortable. There was also that graphic scene where some dude gets his head smash by a fire extinguisher. What I'm saying is fuck taboos. Fuck the scared cow. We are too constrained by prudish social norms. I believe in art freedom. But then again, there’s also a fine line between art and porn.

Screw porn (pun intended). Porn is for losers who live in trailer parks and have “sex” with blow up dolls. Porn is alright for women though (that’s right, someone had to say it)….But anyway, an example of a movie trying to push the boundaries, but falling into the porn category would be “Caligula”. Is this an artistic endeavor or porn? Fuck if I know. I rented it from Netflix, but my wife (who has a degree in Film Studies) watch it before I got home and immediately mailed it back after watching 20 minutes of fist fucking, sodomy, orgies, etc.. I respect her opinion that “Caligula” was nothing more than a big budget porn. I don’t think Malcolm McDowell ever recovered from that…oh no wait, he was Mr. Roarke in the “Fantasy Island” made for TV remake. He still has it baby!

So is it art or porn when Chloë Sevigny gives Vincent Gallo a BJ in “Brown Bunny”? Since it’s supposed to be a real act, I’m going to have to go with PORN. Hey Chloë, it’s called acting not dick sucking. That chick thinks she’s so artsy. Just because she’s a social butterfly in the New York art scene and dates that dude from A.R.E. Weapons, doesn’t mean everything she does is art. And Vincent Gallo likes to think he’s some cutting edge genius, but he’s really just a pretentious hack. He reminds me of Tony Kaye (the dude who did American History X). He made one good movie, got a big head, and now he thinks he’s some crazy mastermind like Kubrick. The difference is that Kubrick made many great movies.

So will I see “Brown Bunny”? Absolutely, because there’s only one way to decide if it has any merit. I doubt that it does, but at least I can have a good laugh.