Amazon.com Customer Reviews
 Rated 2 out of 5
TRASH,TRASH,TRASH!!
The movie is really trash. The movie starts out showing Joe Dallesandro’’s [rear] and Geri Miller go-go dancing naked. Later on in the movie we meet Holly Woodlawn a trash collector who is a transvestite and a former prostitute. More graphic nudity and sex come up when Jane Forth and her husband come in the story. An all right beginning,middle, and end but the story is terrible. Rated 4 out of 5
Exploring the junky side of the moon
This film deals with drugs, very precisely heroin. We are in the post hippy period when drugs became an addiction after having been a life style. The drug addict is reduced in his sexuality, in his thinking and in his social life. He only survives in a hostile environment. But that was in 1970. The environment of the drug addict is either looking for easy kicks by flirting with drugs (high-school students for example), or for sexual kicks among young middle class couples or people who try to use the uninhibited life of the drug addict to have physical contacts with them or to beef up their own boring and fading relations, or for some advantage they can get from them in exchange of some welfare money (social workers for example). This leads to the sad conclusion that drug addicts who look for a certain liberation in a trip beyond limits find themselves entirely trapped in a fake world where alienation is demultiplied by their addiction. The film is of course also a piece of art by the fact that it refuses any kind of special effects or heavy production and the pictures only speak because they are plain, simple, and yet tremendously worked on by the simple technique of the camera, physical acting and voices. The expressivity of the film comes from those simple elements and the realistic revealing dialogue that goes along with it. The feeling we get is that of a totally poignant fatality that pens up the drug addict in a fully lost battle for survival. There seems to be only death at the end of the road. Dr Jacques COULARDEAU - Rated 4 out of 5
Compelling Must-See
I watched this movie last night for the first time and I haven’’t been able to stop thinking about it since -- in fact, I hope to order the film once I finish this review. I am amazed that no one in my life ever suggested that I see this movie because it is now one of my favorite films. The movie is episodic and inconsistent in a dramatic sense but the majority of it is composed of unforgettable scenes that are generally hilarious, often quite moving, brilliantly acted, and perversely beautiful. Holly Woodlawn, specifically, provides a wonderful performance that, in my opinion, provides a thematic framework for the entire exercise. Ultimately, I find myself considering what or who is really the ’’trash’’ of the film. Holly finds her own kind of treasure discarded on the street -- not only in the form of junk furniture but in the beautiful but impotent human form of junkie Joe. And who stinks more, dirty strung-out Joe harmless in a bath or the shallow, amoral rich couple who exploit him for a brief moment of voyeuristic pleasure? In addition, it might be said that the film documents a type of ’’trash culture’’ that arguably conquered New York in the seventies. Along with and, in a sense, an inverse of Woody Allen’’s ’’Manhattan’’, this is a classic New York movie. It is truly unique and it should not be missed.
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