Gavin B.

I first heard Gogol Bordello on the soundtrack of the wonderfully dark indie movie: Wristcutters: A Love Story (2006). The romantic couple in the movie is Shannyn Sossaman and Patrick Fugit (best known as the actor who played the William Miller, 15 year old Rolling Stone journalist in Almost Famous).

Shannyn and Patrick's characters commit suicide at the beginning of the movie and end up in a purgatory where all suicide victims go after dying. They met and become romantically involved in the desolate netherland of formerly alive suicide victims. In the scene Shannyn is trying to be restored to life because she committed suicide by mistake. Patrick's character is searching for his missing girlfriend who died in a suicide pact with him.

The director originally wanted to cast Eugene Hütz as the driver who, by no coincidence, is named Eugene. Unfortunately Eugene Hütz wasn't available to work in the film. Even so, Shea Whigham the actor who plays Eugene the driver looks, dresses and talks a lot like the real life Eugene Hütz .

The Gogol Bordello song, Through the Roof and Underground was such a perfect song for the soundtrack it made me a fan of the band. Tom Waits has a hilariously funny role in the movie too.

Here's how the song appeared in the movie:

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There are two types of music: the first type is the blues and the second type is all the other stuff.
Townes Van Zandt