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Trigger Warning: This article contains several references to animal cruelty during shooting.
In the summer of 1994, Forrest Gump was released in the United States to wide acclaim, becoming the fourth highest grossing film at that time and winning six Oscars, including Best Picture. Roger Ebert wrote, ‘I’ve never met anyone like Forrest Gump in a movie before, and for that matter I’ve never seen a movie quite like Forrest Gump.’ It is curious to read that from Ebert, because just ten months prior in September 1993, a film called Bad Boy Bubby was shown at the Venice Film Festival.
Put simply, Bad Boy Bubby is Forrest Gump on bath salts, imbued with pitch-black humour instead of sickly treacle. While Gump opens in a leafy Savannah park to Alan Silvestri’s melodic score, Bubby begins in a hellish room with no natural light and filthy grey walls, which is...
In the summer of 1994, Forrest Gump was released in the United States to wide acclaim, becoming the fourth highest grossing film at that time and winning six Oscars, including Best Picture. Roger Ebert wrote, ‘I’ve never met anyone like Forrest Gump in a movie before, and for that matter I’ve never seen a movie quite like Forrest Gump.’ It is curious to read that from Ebert, because just ten months prior in September 1993, a film called Bad Boy Bubby was shown at the Venice Film Festival.
Put simply, Bad Boy Bubby is Forrest Gump on bath salts, imbued with pitch-black humour instead of sickly treacle. While Gump opens in a leafy Savannah park to Alan Silvestri’s melodic score, Bubby begins in a hellish room with no natural light and filthy grey walls, which is...
- 5/7/2020
- by Jack Hawkins
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Part black comedy, part kitchen sink drama and part Kafka-esque nightmare, this uncompromising film is like a cattle prod to the senses
In a filthy, run-down kitchen, an adult man stands naked in a rusty bucket as his mother scrubs and cleans him. She serves him a bowl of pieces of bread covered in sugar and milk, asks him to apply her lipstick ("princess pink) then, only a few minutes into an already weird film, things get a lot weirder.
In bed, the large and bedraggled Mam (Claire Benito) straddles her son, having sex with him while murmuring in her softest and most assuring tone of voice good boy ... good little boy.
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In a filthy, run-down kitchen, an adult man stands naked in a rusty bucket as his mother scrubs and cleans him. She serves him a bowl of pieces of bread covered in sugar and milk, asks him to apply her lipstick ("princess pink) then, only a few minutes into an already weird film, things get a lot weirder.
In bed, the large and bedraggled Mam (Claire Benito) straddles her son, having sex with him while murmuring in her softest and most assuring tone of voice good boy ... good little boy.
Continue reading...
- 5/16/2014
- by Luke Buckmaster
- The Guardian - Film News
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