Gummo (Criterion Collection) [4K Ultra HD Blu-ray]

Screenwriter Harmony Korine (who gained fame for the screenplay of the controversial 1995 look at nihilistic urban youth, Kids) makes his directorial debut with this relentlessly downbeat, experimental look at the residents of an impoverished Midwestern small town. During the '70s, tornadoes destroyed much of Xenia, Ohio and though 20 years have passed, the town has yet to recover. From Korine's viewpoint, it is a gritty, run-down place populated by strange, uneducated, alienated and ugly p...