Buffalo 66 Film Analysis
Buffalo ’66 Film Review
Do you want to fragrantly waste a mind-numbing hour and a half of your monotonous life? If you just threw you hand up in the air and shouted ‘yes’, then Vincent Gallo’s film Buffalo ’66 is for you. You will be subjected to a remarkably mundane plot, which will leave you hopelessly confused and a little afraid. It’s only rendering feature is, perhaps, the artistic style in which it is created.
The film is set in the overly industrialized town of Buffalo where our main character, Billy Brown, who is played might I say, badly by Gallo himself, was born with regret and raised with disinterest. We are fist introduced to Billy as he is being released from prison. We become reluctant voyeurs of his life. His first problem …show more content…
Gallo has decided to put her in a virgin blue dress, a doll like face and alienated from the rest of her dance class. In fact she looks very much like a prostitute. Gallo chooses to sexualize her, focusing the camera around her breasts. Maybe this is why Billy kidnaps her. Yes! I said kidnaps. Told you this was a weird …show more content…
He does this to show flashbacks to inform us of Billy’s past. Through these flashbacks we discover that Billy’s childhood was very harsh. We see his loss of innocence through his Fathers anger on his dog Bingo, and his Mothers lack of care when Billy has an allergic reaction to chocolate. We also see his innocence in the events that sent him to prison. With Billy’s Mothers obsession with the town’s local football team the ‘Buffalo Bills’, we see her lack of care in Billy as a child again. When Layla asks Billy’s mum to see a photo of Billy as a child, She then replies to husband “Where’s the Billy Picture?” He had one picture as a kid, ONE!! But as you walk into the house you see a bunch of pictures of Buffalo players. This is a major key to Billy’s alienation. He didn’t have a normal home and was treated like he wasn’t
Do you want to fragrantly waste a mind-numbing hour and a half of your monotonous life? If you just threw you hand up in the air and shouted ‘yes’, then Vincent Gallo’s film Buffalo ’66 is for you. You will be subjected to a remarkably mundane plot, which will leave you hopelessly confused and a little afraid. It’s only rendering feature is, perhaps, the artistic style in which it is created.
The film is set in the overly industrialized town of Buffalo where our main character, Billy Brown, who is played might I say, badly by Gallo himself, was born with regret and raised with disinterest. We are fist introduced to Billy as he is being released from prison. We become reluctant voyeurs of his life. His first problem …show more content…
Gallo has decided to put her in a virgin blue dress, a doll like face and alienated from the rest of her dance class. In fact she looks very much like a prostitute. Gallo chooses to sexualize her, focusing the camera around her breasts. Maybe this is why Billy kidnaps her. Yes! I said kidnaps. Told you this was a weird …show more content…
He does this to show flashbacks to inform us of Billy’s past. Through these flashbacks we discover that Billy’s childhood was very harsh. We see his loss of innocence through his Fathers anger on his dog Bingo, and his Mothers lack of care when Billy has an allergic reaction to chocolate. We also see his innocence in the events that sent him to prison. With Billy’s Mothers obsession with the town’s local football team the ‘Buffalo Bills’, we see her lack of care in Billy as a child again. When Layla asks Billy’s mum to see a photo of Billy as a child, She then replies to husband “Where’s the Billy Picture?” He had one picture as a kid, ONE!! But as you walk into the house you see a bunch of pictures of Buffalo players. This is a major key to Billy’s alienation. He didn’t have a normal home and was treated like he wasn’t