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The Brown Bunny (2003)
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Movie Review by brian 
July 31st, 2008
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no funny bunny here...
warning: this review may contain some spoilers for the uninitiated. for those familiar with vincent gallo's buffalo 66, i need not really say much more to pat the man on his back. the film had layers of dark humor, lots of heart, & quirkiness to make us fall in love. gallo returns with a another love story of sorts but there is no dark humor or quirkiness here whatsoever. this time around he introduces us to a lonely, lost soul traveling solo on the highway after just finishing a bike race. along the way back to california, he meets three different women who all seem to be lacking what he longs for. love. in between the meeting of these three unique women, we see many long shots of driving while hearing rather somber music. brown bunny is essentail a very lugubrious ballad about the journeys we sometimes make only to find that we can never go back to what we once had. vincent gallo shows us how much we really want to have hope even though our heart has nearly convinced us there is no hope to be found. contrary to what reviewers have written, brown bunny is a very soft if not slow moving film with very tender scenes not unlike some of the tender moments in buffalo '66. the tile itself basically has two meanings. gallo's girlfriend chloe left the pet bunny with her mother when she moved to california & never came back for it. my interpretations: gallo's character felt like he'd abandoned chloe when she needed him the in the most crucial moments. also, gallo had given chloe a chocolate bunny for easter which she had eaten completely (or so we learn through dialgoue) & thrown up shortly afterwards. in the most heartfelt dialogue between vincent & chloe, we learn the he kissed her anyway because he truly loved her. yes, there is a very graphic sex scene at the end of the film (the last ten minutes to be exact) but i personally didn't feel this took anything away from the film. the ending was intended to be very dramatic, emotional, & raw. recommended.
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