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Bully - Larry Clark

 
 
Goodness Gracious Meme
12:15 / 15.03.02
apologies if there's already a thread, but what did people think of this?
 
 
grant
12:17 / 15.03.02
I need to see that. Set in South Florida, it was. Friends of mine say a good movie to go home and take a warm shower after.

How's it compare to Kids?
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
14:22 / 15.03.02
Here is one guy's take on Bully...
 
 
Murray Hamhandler
14:50 / 15.03.02
Very similar to 'Kids' to me, insofar as I wanted to strangle the (mostly absent) parents more than the kids afterwards. Very disturbing.
Arthur Sudnam, II
 
 
Mystery Gypt
15:57 / 15.03.02
i just saw bully and i was really amazed. the kids in it are incredible, there's all this subtle character development and realizations and it all just gets more and more horrible, the cinematographer is a genius the way he has these kinetic, rotating shots that make you feel nauseous.

it is much more complex than kids, much more mysterious. i kept on feeling like i didn't understand what kind of film it was, or how exactly to watch it. but whereas the writing in kids was an up to the second frantic poetry, the dialogue in bully is this vapid lanscape, accutrately reflecting the mind's of the people speaking. if in kids, all the characters learned how to talk from rap, in bully, all the character learned how to talk from watching daytime television.

clark's second film, another day in paradise, is also amazing and beautiful, a junkies on the road... to hell type.
 
  
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