Trash Humpers
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| Directed by | Harmony Korine |
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Agnès b. Charles-Marie Anthonioz Amina Dasmal Robin Fox |
| Written by | Harmony Korine |
| Starring |
Rachel Korine Brian Kotzur Travis Nicholson Harmony Korine |
| Cinematography | Harmony Korine |
| Edited by | Leo Scott |
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| Distributed by | Drag City |
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78 minutes 97 minutes(2010) |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Trash Humpers is a 2009 experimental black comedy-drama horror film written and directed by Harmony Korine. Shot on worn VHS home video, the film features a "loser-gang cult-freak collective" living in Nashville, Tennessee.
The film follows the lives of a group of sociopathic elderly individuals living in Nashville, Tennessee "who do antisocial things in a non-narrative way."
The movie opens with multiple shots of the old gang members masturbating to trash. This continues as a recurring sequence throughout the film.
These gang members are mostly male. There is only one woman among the main cast, though you can see others in brief shots later in the film.
We get a glimpse into the home of the elderly thugs. The living room is squalid, and the old people lie around or dance through it and rant and rave about various meaningless topics. The kitchen, however, is clean.
Various members of the gang are shown trespassing, partaking in vandalism, and disturbing the peace among other crimes.
A few of the members are seen on a basketball court in broad daylight, mocking and laughing at a boy failing to make baskets.
As the old people relax and lie down, the old lady sits in wheelchair and cheers him on as the child describes hitting a doll with a hammer, before aggressively doing so. The movie displays a recurring theme of violence driven by peer pressure, and the ritualistic antics in which the gang collectively partakes.
Briefly, a scene is played out involving the old lady on a small tricycle, dragging the beaten doll behind her by a string attached to the back of the bike. This is seen in greater detail towards the end of the film.
An old man drags himself along the ground as the old lady, again, sits in her wheelchair. She instructs a fat kid on how to hide a razor blade in an apple and screeches with joy at the thought of their pain. The gang members display a strong, recurring theme of taking sadistic pleasure in the suffering of others. We later learn that other people have hurt the gang through societal standards and expectations and actively attempt to oppress their freedom of self.
Later in the film, we see them ranting and making pancakes in the kitchen, chanting "make it, make it, don't fake it". The scene changes to the dark living room, which also features a dining table. Two old men sit across from each other, both wearing hats that are connected by a large pipe. They do not take these hats off and remain connected throughout the scenes in which they are featured. The old lady serves them pancakes, screams at them for a short time period, and then instructs an old shouting man to liberally apply dish soap to the pancakes. The hat men are henceforth forced to eat the pancakes. They do not appear to mind.
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