SXSW 2010: 'Trash Humpers' film review. So I had no particular feeling one way or another toward Harmony Korine. I like the movie “Kids,” and “Julien Donkey-Boy,” which is a film that is oddly unique and surprisingly funny and sad and disturbing. But I wouldn’t say I was a huge fan. That is until I saw the new film “Trash Humpers.” I don’t even know where to begin with this film. And it’s quite inexplicable. It’s like nothing I’ve ever seen before. And I have no idea what it means or what it’s even about. And also, it was awesome and I wish I could watch it again. It's easily my new favorite movie of SXSW 2010. This might be a really short review because I don't want to give it away and I also don't really know what to say.

So “Trash Humpers” should give you an idea of what you are going to see in the film; people humping trash. It’s fucking strange but amazing. It’s about people who are perhaps elderly and surely deranged and a series of weird events and encounters that happens over the course of a few days and nights. It is shot (or made to look like it was shot) entirely on VHS, which makes the film that much more interesting.

It reminds me of a bootleg of home videos I once watched called “Uncle Goddamn.” And although I have no idea what it means I will try and see if I can understand it. It might be about materialism, or over consumption, or maybe emptiness of ordinary life. But in the end there is one of the only coherent conversations which implies that what you watched is the result of freedom run amuck on the margins of society.

I’m not sure what the point is or why this movie even exists, but I thoroughly enjoyed it. Most of the film is so weird and absurd that it’s hilarious. My friends and I were often the only people laughing in the whole theater. I don’t know when you will be able to see this movie if ever, but if there’s a will there’s a way. I know that a lot of people are going to think I’m crazy for liking this film, but I just can’t help it. It got inside my head and totally blew me away. I guess I’m going to have to watch more Harmony Korine movies, because this movie was right up my alley.