"Must be one of the truest songs of roadside America that the movies have produced." - Charles Taylor, Salon.com This film was quite good, in my opinion. I had heard so many bad things about it before viewing - the pacing, shots, pretentious filmmaker (said he was "better than Orson Welles"!), on and on. I heard from a friend of mine who was at the Cannes Film Festival premiere, in the audience at the showing, who did not like it. She said everyone thought it was laughable, and awful.
THEN I saw it myself at long last. And I LOVED IT. Call me "artsy-crazy", but I just got the film. I understood why Gallo told the story the way he did.
The slow pacing, the shots, the stuff said and not spoken at all. For many people, these are tedious things in the movie's telling, but for myself this steadily built up into a profound ending that put all of the film into perspective. There is a point after all of the wait, to the wandering in the film, and it is a good point. Well worth the patience some people will have to use to watch it through to the end.
So many shots were exceptionally done: his use of sunshine, and framing is interesting, his use of sound, and the soundtrack IS INCREDIBLE. Listen to it if you get the chance, or better yet, I recommend you seek it out and buy it. John Frusciante (RHCP guitarist) did some songs exclusively for it.
So why does not everyone get it? There are not enough quick cuts, and fast scenes showing a rapidly moving plot, with a huge climactic ending!! There is a "climax" definitely at the ending, but it lends itself to the telling of the story. It is an intricate weaving of someone's emotional state, and the melancholy he feels about a tragedy he cannot get a grip on. His lonely isolation is the feeling we view. We ride along with him in the van, and view the long outstretched road ahead to California, where he is going to meet Daisy, the only woman he has ever loved...
I suggest strongly that you reserve your judgment until you see the film for yourself. There are two versions out there on DVD now: the Cannes Film Festival version (119 minutes), and the official DVD cut version (edited to 93 minutes). I have seen the Brown Bunny three times, and see more and more in it each time. I am looking forward to viewing the longer version.
THIS MOVIE IS VERY UNDERRATED. THAT LED ME TO COME HERE AND PUT IN MY TWO CENTS. OR A BIT OF SENSE - INTO ANY TALK OF 'THE BROWN BUNNY'.
THEN I saw it myself at long last. And I LOVED IT. Call me "artsy-crazy", but I just got the film. I understood why Gallo told the story the way he did.
The slow pacing, the shots, the stuff said and not spoken at all. For many people, these are tedious things in the movie's telling, but for myself this steadily built up into a profound ending that put all of the film into perspective. There is a point after all of the wait, to the wandering in the film, and it is a good point. Well worth the patience some people will have to use to watch it through to the end.
So many shots were exceptionally done: his use of sunshine, and framing is interesting, his use of sound, and the soundtrack IS INCREDIBLE. Listen to it if you get the chance, or better yet, I recommend you seek it out and buy it. John Frusciante (RHCP guitarist) did some songs exclusively for it.
So why does not everyone get it? There are not enough quick cuts, and fast scenes showing a rapidly moving plot, with a huge climactic ending!! There is a "climax" definitely at the ending, but it lends itself to the telling of the story. It is an intricate weaving of someone's emotional state, and the melancholy he feels about a tragedy he cannot get a grip on. His lonely isolation is the feeling we view. We ride along with him in the van, and view the long outstretched road ahead to California, where he is going to meet Daisy, the only woman he has ever loved...
I suggest strongly that you reserve your judgment until you see the film for yourself. There are two versions out there on DVD now: the Cannes Film Festival version (119 minutes), and the official DVD cut version (edited to 93 minutes). I have seen the Brown Bunny three times, and see more and more in it each time. I am looking forward to viewing the longer version.
THIS MOVIE IS VERY UNDERRATED. THAT LED ME TO COME HERE AND PUT IN MY TWO CENTS. OR A BIT OF SENSE - INTO ANY TALK OF 'THE BROWN BUNNY'.