Gummo

Gummo ends with an image of a destructive tornado ransacking Xenia, a small town in Ohio. The rest of the film leading up to this point shows the results of this Tornado and how it not only destroyed the small town itself, but the moral fabric of the people living within it. In all, the film conveys the idea that when a community of people is faced with such desolate and impoverished futures, societal and sexual boundaries are in result lowered or even completely removed from everyday living.

The bleakness of life within this town is communicated immediately through the impish looking "Bunny boy" at the beginning of the film. We are introduced to this character while he stands on a bridge that suspends over the expressway. The bridge itself is completely covered with chain link fencing that resembles a prison entrapping for the boy.

As the boy stands on the bride he watches the automobiles on the expressway drive