Synopsis
Sex. Violence. Whatever.
Jordan White and Amy Blue, two troubled teens, pick up an adolescent drifter, Xavier Red. Together, the threesome embarks on a sex and violence-filled journey through an United States of psychos and quickie marts.
1995 Directed by Gregg Araki
Jordan White and Amy Blue, two troubled teens, pick up an adolescent drifter, Xavier Red. Together, the threesome embarks on a sex and violence-filled journey through an United States of psychos and quickie marts.
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He probably vomited while typing "a heterosexual film by gregg araki" into the script.
extraordinary. a nightmarishly depraved, violent and sexual film, the blood and cum emirates from every frame. the aimlessness of the protagonists, drifting from place to place in this hellish world where everything is a decrepit wreck inhabited with psychopaths with shotguns and new people to run from. they have each other but soon that will end, through violence or other means, this is america, a concoction of the worst traits of humanity. and in the end, the violence becomes all too real and the scars linger, inescapable.
Probably the most quintessential 90s film I’ve ever seen, it’s fucking rad as hell. Araki engorges on colour, neon lights juxtaposed with pitch black darkness. Hotel rooms that are bathed in red, shots sometimes literally dripping with blood. Hair simply must cover your eyes or you don’t exist within The Doom Generation’s world, totally cut off from society, where everything costs $6.66, decapitated heads can still talk, everyone’s driving down the highway to hell. The scabbed flesh of three become one, bright red/pink lips rub off on baggy, tattered shirts. Smoke fills the frame and escapes up your nose. Welcome to Gregg Araki’s teenage America, where surnames are simply Red, White and Blue. Amy has ‘kill’ scarred into her knuckles,…
gregg araki was like "this is a heterosexual movie" and boy he wasnt kidding........ let xavier and jordan kiss man!!!!!!!! let them fuck
There are many ways that one
could describe The Doom Generation:
A strange film with a primarily cult following.
A great film with an important
message to send about my country.
A comedy with an unexpectedly tragic ending.
I could go on and on,
Or I could just tell you that I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Gregg Araki is 2/2 in my book, with this and Mysterious Skin.
only thing keeping this absolute trainwreck from a half star rating is parker posey's 2 minute cameo as a heart-shaped sunglasses-wearing lesbian
Satirical nihilism, but make it super horny.
Araki’s angst-fuelled odyssey into teen rebellion blurs the lines between the offensive and the absurd, but never at the expense of its audience. Wonderfully shot, wickedly scripted and made for less than $1 million, the film explodes with creativity from the moment it begins, catapulting its charismatic cast into an acidic utopia filled with sex, violence and enough quotable insults to last a lifetime. Technically speaking, Araki’s radical signature is scribbled all over it; lit like a neon nightclub with a soundtrack angrier than a hormonal teenager with ketamine in their back pocket, but it wouldn’t work any other way. Stoned James Duval and sleazy Jonathan Schaech are fantastic, but it’s Rose McGowan that…
Sex. Violence. Whatever.
The movie starts with Rose McGowan and James Duval (in a Ministry shirt) attending a rave with Nine Inch Nails playing in the background and it cuts to them both fucking in a car while Slowdive's Alison plays on the radio.
So yeah, instant 10 star movie right here!
I feel like not enough people bring up Gregg Araki when talking about the independent film movement of the 90's. He made some awesome(ly weird) movies back then. And while I prefer Araki's "Beverly Hills 90210 on acid with added aliens", Nowhere, Doom is still plenty awesome. It's got decapitated heads, she-devils, swastika jocks, innocent himbo's, Parker Posey in a blonde wig wielding a samurai sword, bisexual 'miring…
If this is a heterosexual movie, the director doesn't much like heterosexuals. I am okay with that. Not so much okay with the pitch darkness half the film exists in, obfuscating what would otherwise probably have been interesting shots. When you can see, the composition is so well done that it's even more frustrating that so much of the film is a shadowy blur. I suspect it's intentionally dark, some atmospheric effect, but the red filtered rooms and the checkered rooms and the flash of American flag in the dark are so much better at providing atmosphere than murkiness. Also, the sex and violence is a bit sensationalist and gross, sometimes crossing the line (see the American flag scene especially) and fuck knows there's an essay in here about sexuality that I don't have the inclination or energy to write, but I still kinda liked it.
Pride month: 3/20
Warning: In the spirit of this film this review contains many examples of naughty language and strong sexual references. Please do not continue if this kind of stuff offends you.
Do you remember being seventeen? No matter how hard you tried to be a gentleman your pecker was like a divining rod that involuntarily pointed you in the direction of any chick that was in the direct vicinity that had two legs? It was a biological imperative, chemicals and hormones hurtled through your bloodstream and your nerve endings screamed and tingled, urging you to stick your penis in anything and everything that even remotely resembled a round hole that preferably extended into a cylinder.
And yet there was this strange…
A movie that somehow perfectly balances some hilarious comedy, horrible tragedy, and incessant, unsatisfiable horniness all at once. I love how over the top Araki gets on this one, with its weird violence and fantastical elements in the first two acts of the film. The ending knocked my socks off and truly revealed just how hellish this movie was willing to get.
fuckin love this movie, but i gotta tell ya, there's graphic violence in it, and a rape scene which i still to this day do not know the point of.
xavier is a standout bi character. iconic but, also a jerk
ps. i love gregg araki, i love everything he makes.
i need to watch this, but im giving this five
stars anyway because , Rose. McGowan.
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