{"id":8167,"date":"2017-01-26T12:51:03","date_gmt":"2017-01-26T19:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=8167"},"modified":"2017-01-26T12:51:03","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T19:51:03","slug":"kuso-gross-o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2017\/01\/26\/kuso-gross-o\/","title":{"rendered":"Kuso Gross-o"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2017\/1\/25\/14380160\/kuso-review-sundance-2017-flying-lotus\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from The\u00a0Verge<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Kuso is the grossest movie ever made<\/h1>\n<p><em>Grotesquely explicit descriptions ahead<\/em><\/p>\n<p>by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/users\/ctplante\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Plante<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/players.brightcove.net\/624246174001\/2d3d4a83-ba40-464e-9bfb-2804b076bf67_default\/index.html?videoId=5298049718001\" width=\"480\" height=\"272\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>There are a number of reasons I\u2019m hesitant to recommend\u00a0<em>Kuso<\/em>, the first film from artist and musician Steven Ellison, aka Flying Lotus. (Spoilers and grotesquely explicit descriptions ahead.) I\u2019ll start with the footage of an erect penis being stabbed. As with most footage of an erect penis being violently gored by a long steel rod, it\u2019s certainly unexpected. So by the time you cover your eyes, it\u2019s already too late. And if you happened to blink, it\u2019s cool,\u00a0<em>Kuso<\/em>delivers a callback.<\/p>\n<p>To paraphrase the official plot synopsis,\u00a0<em>Kuso<\/em>\u00a0is a collection of semi-connected short films chronicling the lives of the mutated women, men, and children of Los Angeles, following the earthquake to end all earthquakes. But that\u2019s not really\u00a0<em>Kuso<\/em>\u2019s story, let alone its point. While the film does hint at some interesting (though opaque) commentary about Los Angeles, racism, and the grim and bloody history of America, its creators are mostly interested in one thing: producing the grossest film ever.<\/p>\n<p>They succeed. The sliced eyeball in\u00a0<em>Un Chien Andalou<\/em>, the copious shit in\u00a0<em>River of Fundament<\/em>, the corporeal mutilation of the entire torture-porn genre: it\u2019s all an\u00a0<em>amuse-bouche<\/em>for the final course that is\u00a0<em>Kuso<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2017\/1\/25\/14380160\/kuso-review-sundance-2017-flying-lotus\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at The Verge<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The\u00a0Verge Kuso is the grossest movie ever made Grotesquely explicit descriptions ahead by\u00a0Chris Plante There are a number of reasons I\u2019m hesitant to recommend\u00a0Kuso, the first film from artist and musician Steven Ellison, aka Flying Lotus. (Spoilers and grotesquely explicit descriptions ahead.) I\u2019ll start with the footage of an erect penis being stabbed. As [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-mirth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}