SummaryBroadcasting through a makeshift network of discarded televisions, KUSO depicts the aftermath of Los Angeles’s worst earthquake nightmare. Viewers travel between screens and aftershocks into the twisted lives of the survived, experiencing a hallucination that is half-Cronenberg, half-Ren & Stimpy. [Shudder]
Directed By:Flying Lotus
Written By:David Firth, Flying Lotus
Kuso
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51
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Jun 30, 2017
91
Kuso is a hallucinatory, scatological, grotesque, and occasionally hysterical work of utter mania, the kind of wild cinema that cuts through the noise of all safer, more marketable filmmaking.
Jul 4, 2017
70
“It’s the first movie / song / book about life in the Trump era” has become trite, so I’ll say this instead: the movie is often quite literally a load of shit. But that can be comfortingly frank when it feels like the world is on fire, but we’re all just going to smile anyway.
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Sep 25, 2017
10
Kuso is a masterpiece. It embraces the ugliness of human, expressed by tumors and bodily fluids, but also by fears and not so honorous behaviour, and takes you on a dark, yet very humorous trip.
If you're disgusted, then remember - your disgust is just a rejection of a part of your humanity. It may be wrong, but that's not your fault.
If you crave unpredictable weirdness, you will surely enjoy it. I promise.
Sep 10, 2017
10
KUSO is really a movie you're either going to love or hate, it's been said before by producer of the film Flying Lotus who single handedly created this movie by himself. If you have an artistic persona and have the brain power to sit through some twisted and "nightmarish" story telling then this movie is definitely worth your time. If you're looking for blood and gore then you wont find much here, this is some uneasy stuff with some real quirky moments too. Also artist David Firth comes to mind with series such as Salad Fingers and Sock, not to mention Cream, the short film also released on Brainfeeder Films earlier this year. I think if you're an average Jo then this movie isn't for you, simple and clean.
Jun 30, 2017
67
Sick and twisted for the sake of being sick and twisted, Kuso is a certainly not a film for everyone, or perhaps anybody. I imagine the experience is like being high on something spiked with an agent that can induce awful nightmares. Though I’m not sure being drunk or high will make Kuso a delightful experience.
Jul 27, 2017
50
Sensitive readers should be informed that Kuso is not for you; even those with a strong tolerance for monster-movie gore are far from guaranteed to accept its warm, clumpy bath of repugnant ickiness.
Jul 20, 2017
42
If nothing else, think of it as a hilariously repugnant curio, the kind of transgressive art you’ll be unable to unpack because you’ll be too busy chugging ginger ale to bother.
Jul 27, 2017
40
It’s probably a tautology to say that the patchwork surrealism of Kuso doesn’t hang together as a coherent experience.
Jun 30, 2017
30
The referentiality of “Kuso,” its general snark, and even its defensive self-criticism (characters state “I hate this movie!” more than once) fail to make it any more funny or inspired, let alone any less of a shapeless chore to sit through.
Aug 6, 2017
0
I liked Flying Lotus´ LA EP´s almost 10 years ago but his experimental approach works better in music because Kuso is just a piece of fu*king trash
