Vincent Gallo, a Van, and Gordon Lightfoot

On Sunday, I saw The Brown Bunny with Merychippus. Maybe the longer cut of this film was really awful but the film I saw was pretty impressive. First it should be noted that have an affinity for slow-moving contemplative films featuring beautiful scenery. Movies like Gerry or George Washington. The Brown Bunny mostly features writer/director Vincent Gallo's character Bud Clay driving cross country in a van from one motorcycle race to another. The digital camera work is great and I really liked how the driving at night scenes looked. I loved the driving scene where Gordon Lightfoot's "Beautiful" played on the soundtrack. About every five or six minutes or so something other than driving happens. Sometimes its something mundane other times it is something surreal. It all culminates with the big blow job scene with Bud's ex-girlfriend Daisy, played by Chloe Sevigny. The BJ is real and well lets just say while the length was not that impressive the thickness was. The scene was shocking but not the oral sex but for what else is revealed during and after it. The revelation puts the whole film in a different perspective and puts the reality of many of the previous scenes in question. To say more would spoil it but The Brown Bunny is one of those films that gets better the more I think about it. If it wasn't only playing at 9:45 at the Varsity, I might have to see it again.