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[REVIEW
> TRASH]
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"Trash"
is a fine example of immaturishly directed and badly acted early
movies by Paul Morrissey in collaboration (most of the time
indirectly) with of one of the most influential contemporary
artists, Andy Warhol. |
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(Special to Indierag.com)
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| "Trash" is a fine example of immaturishly
directed and badly acted early movies by Paul Morrissey
in collaboration (most of the time indirectly) with of
one of the most influential contemporary artists, Andy
Warhol. |
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| The film opens with a full shot of Andy Warhol Superstar
Joe Dallesandro's pimply ass while he gets a blowjob by
a voluptuous girl. The girl is trying to get Joe hard,
but with no success. Throughout the film, women and one
particular transvestite, Holly Woodlawn Ð also an Andy
Warhol Superstar, attempt to get Joe hard. But Joe can't
get hard because he's a junky. |
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| Joe's character is in between aloof, deep in thought
and naturally nodding off. A junky, thief and rapist,
Joe inevitably ends up shooting up or naked, whether trying
to make love, raping a girl or taking a bath. Joe is shown
repeatedly shooting up or trying to score some dope. Many
of the characters seem overacted compared to the sleepy
and subdued Joe. As one actress wails to Joe, "I neeed
LLLSSDDD!" Every character wants and is facinated by drugs
and watching Joe shoot up and Joe's dick. |
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| After one occasion of main-lining, Joe angrily tries
to rape a friend, yelling "I'll show you rich ass cunt
to be fucked by a junky!" And she protests, "I don't want
to be fucked by a junnnkyyy!" But Joe is unable to get
an erection due of his drug use. As a consolation, he
offers to give her a good beating, then askes her to give
him money for drugs. |
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| At Holly's place, Holly brings home a high school student
who is seeking to get high. After promising the student
that she won't give him the needle, she shoots him up
any way inorder to seduce him. Holly prods the student
about sex and drugs and pushing his and society's boundaries
at the same time. Holly tells the student that she likes
to "kneel." A man of the world, Joe warns the student,
who he surmises as a "drug taking, hippie, groupie type
of person," of holly's lustful intentions with him. |
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| "Trash" bluntly presents motion picture medium
as a crude recreation of life with filled with unnatural
acting and nonexisitant film technique. In Trash, acting
is really a bad imitation of life. In focus or out of
focus, it doesn't matter Ð "Trash" does not
try to mask the fact that what you are seeing is simply
lights flickering through the screen and recorded sound. |
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As in other Morrisey/Warhol collaborations, "Trash"
doesn't attempt to hide artifice of film making Ð the
events aren't really happening. You get the sense that
a film is all a set up with the camera poised to record
planned events. (When Warhol began making films, he was
known to simply turn on the camera and walk away.) But
what stands firm here is honesty about sex and the beautiful
horror of drugs. .jpg) |
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TRASH
credits:
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Andy Warhol Presents - Trash
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starring Joe Dallessndro and
Holly Woodlawn
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Written, photographed and directed
by Paul Morrissey
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1970
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