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I bit the bullet for you guys. I watched "The worst film in the history of Cannes" , as Roger Ebert put it. The Brown Bunny . Any film that's received this harshly at Cannes makes me curious. The real draw of this film is, there's a real-life blowjob on screen serviced by Chloe Sevigny , who was Gallo 's BF at the time and was a widely known 90s street fashionist. Roger Ebert and Gallo exchanged verbal blows over the movie which makes for good film post-mortem entertainment. ( Ebert later gave it a "thumbs up" after seeing the edited version of the film).

Plot is, Bud Clay (Vincent Gallo) is a pro championship biker who goes on a roadtrip to California. You're never sure why, so it might be one of those slow burners with a noteworthy climax.

Through the first half of the movie, it's just Vincent Gallo stroking his hand across various parts of his face and looking mopey. Nothing much exciting happens, and it's a great cure for insomnia. Very long shots of driving with mopey songs.

Then 40 minutes into the movie, Gallo takes out his badass bumblebee Honda bike out of the truck and rides it across the desert. It's a badass scene, and no matter how terrible the rest of the film might be, you can't deny how good that scene is.

50 minutes in, Gallo does something that shows he's not quite the chauvinist douchebag that he appears to be ( Buffalo '66 ; real-life interviews). In town, at each traffic stop, some prostitute comes up to his car to ask for a good time. He denies the first 2 girls, then changes his mind on the third because she has a nice necklace with the name "Rose". He takes her out, but instead takes her to lunch and pays her to make her money. No sex, he just lets her go and that kind of gentleman act kinda warmed me.

*SPOILERS FROM HERE ON OUT* 1 hour 4 minutes in, now the real shit begins. This is why you came to watch this movie. Daisythe character is foreshadowed before when Gallo talks to some grandparents. This is Chloe Sevigny. What is about to happen for the next 20 minutes is erotic love-making, indie style. What is so cool is that Bud is interrogating Daisy during the infamous fellatio scene. He feels she cheated on him with other guys. The blowjob is shot tastefully, if that's a possible feat. It's not quite porno level with cum going everywhere.

And now we go flashback style to a traumatic party where all hell breaks loose. Daisyis smoking pot, then these frat guys smoke with her. She goes unconscious. Then she gets raped. Claysees this as he's outside the room, but doesn't intervene. An ambulance comes. "I was dead". "What do you mean?" "I died. I got sick. I choked. I died." Claydenies that she died, that she choked on her own vomit. Daisy was dead. That was a ghost blowjob! This was a whole post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) episode.

Now the rest of the movie makes sense. Why Bud Claystops to talk to/kiss girls who have names of flowers. Lilly. Daisy. Violet. Rose. The "brown bunny" was Daisy's bunny. It makes sense that Claylooks depressed throughout the whole movie. */SPOILERS END* 

So yes, if you're thinking this is a terrible movie, just watch to the very end. It's worth suffering through with zombie acting and slow pacing. The shocker of an ending makes up for the rest of the movie. It's worth watching the movie again after the ending to make sense of this slow-paced film.     

If you liked : Jacob's Ladder , The Jacket , Memento