Any movie that inspires such Ogden Nashery must be touched by genius. This is a measure of the impact of the images created by the movie, which tend to haunt one like a particularly vivid nightmare. Taboos like child sexuality and incest are exploded here with surprising clarity, with Green, in perpetual arrested development, acting out like an obsessive-compulsive kid. At heart, it's a punk movie, peppered with music by the Sex Pistols, Agent Orange, New York Dolls, Iggy Pop. And by the time I witnessed Tom Green masturbating a real horse, my head was reeling.
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