In the movie Gummo, what does the fried bacon on the wall in Solomons bathtub scene symbolize?
I think it’s more simple: Some people think that the smell of bacon nourishes masculinity (google : smell of bacon, there is for example link on some news with title ‘Men prefer smell of bacon to babies’), so the bacon on the wall probably had a weird function of a kind of ‘air freshener’, since bathrooms usually have one, and the boy (who we see wanted to gain some pounds with some exercise, in scenes before that) probably liked the smell of bacon enough to use it, and they probably thought it was inedible, so didn’t eat it instead (or they maybe kept it to eat later that day, but wanted before that to use it for this air-freshner function first).
I think it’s more simple: Some people think that the smell of bacon nourishes masculinity (google : smell of bacon, there is for example link on some news with title ‘Men prefer smell of bacon to babies’), so the bacon on the wall probably had a weird function of a kind of ‘air freshener’, since bathrooms usually have one, and the boy (who we see wanted to gain some pounds with some exercise, in scenes before that) probably liked the smell of bacon enough to use it, and probably thought it was inedible, so didn’t eat it instead (or they maybe kept it to eat later that day, but wanted before that to use it for this air-freshner function first).
