The Brown Bunny

What is Genius I wonder. Are the genius's only so, if world acknowledges them to be so? Is it a people vote and popularity that counts? 

Vincent Gallo ~ writer, director, producer, actor of The Brown Bunny. A tragedy with a buildup that is so poetic in its presentation and simple in style that left me breathless - literally. Again like Murakami, he'd shock you... not for faint of heart to see this. A tragedy, the pain, the anguish of loss.. the story of love and remorse.. of an unfair reality of our existence.. make a mistake and time marches on.. no way to recoup, no way to recover the loss. Time may heal some wounds, and that my friend is questionable, but certainly scar shall always remain!

For Vincent ~ someone who I never knew, never sought out, the movie which I'd never heard of and happened to watch as an unlikeliest of chance.. to have rewarded me with such profound experience.. I'm thankful and grateful.

So as I said.. what is genius... does it need the world to say he's a genius for me to acknowledge him as such? Or is the work a piece of Genius and he just happened to be the one who delivered it. I don't know. But I think he is!!!!


- A note of caution. I read up on this movie today a bit. 90% of audience walked out of the movie before the end. It has been trashed badly and called Worst movie to feature in the HISTORY OF CANNES festival.. and a celebrated critic wrote that he'd rather enjoy video of his colonoscopy more.

But having said that.. the fact is also, that some reviewers on rotten tomatoes (my fav review site) seem to have got the same feeling I have, with at least one of them using the same term that I used forVincent - Genius'