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Audience Member Trash is really, just trash. It's a dark depiction of New York in the late 60s and it's cultural scenes. Rated 2/5 Stars • Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/01/23 Full Review Audience Member Cataclysmic sh*t! Absolute drugs, sex & rock 'n roll film minus the rock 'n roll really. I loved it. I love trannies! Rated 5/5 Stars • Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/19/23 Full Review Audience Member The first of the trilogy. If Warhol works for you then you'll be all in. I was. Rated 4/5 Stars • Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/04/23 Full Review Audience Member Though, most film buffs consider Morrissey's HEAT to be the better his trilogy, it is this film that works best for me. While off-the-wall camp funny, there is a certain highly effective level of desperation in Holly Woodlawn's performance that stays with you. While the "X-rated" infamy of this Cult Classic lingers, this is an oddly moralistic viewpoint coming across at all times. The fringes of late 1960's NYC counter-culture is explored with a sort of perverse judgement. Think John Waters with a societal commentary agenda. This is not satire and despite theatrical turns, TRASH is one potent film about the desperate life of junkies near the dawn of a very different decade. A must see. Rated 5/5 Stars • Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/29/23 Full Review Audience Member Still disturbing, still silly after all these years. Rated 3/5 Stars • Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review eric b "Trash" opens with a closeup of Joe Dallesandro's pockmarked buttocks as he receives futile oral sex to revive his drugs-softened penis. This shot neatly sums up the love-it-or-leave-it appeal of this Paul Morrissey-directed feature.Dallesandro is a New York junkie who uses his good looks to scrounge money from the lusty women he meets. Transgendered Warhol superstar Holly Woodlawn plays his volatile roommate, and the two hope to pull a welfare scam using the coming baby of Holly's sleazy sister. The faint strands of a plot end there. The remainder of the action amounts to sleepy conversations, persistent shots of Dallesandro's dangling member and exasperatingly graphic heroin use (the participants favor a brand of bulb-ended syringe that seemingly requires minutes of tedious labor for a single blast).The scenes are long and without transitions, and probably could be shown in any order. Woodlawn acts rings around everyone else in her first role, and her closing minutes are easily the high point. Morrissey reportedly intended "Trash" to discourage rather than promote drug use, and I'd say he achieved his goal.Strange trivia: Around the 64-minute mark, a girl is talking about a junkie she knew in high school who was later run over by a tank. His name: Danny DeVito? The Web suggests DeVito began appearing in off-Broadway plays around 1969, but I'm not aware of any connection between him and the Warhol/Morrissey camp. What's the story here? Rated 2/5 Stars • Rated 2 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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