Os Cangaceiros
24th October 2010, 09:35
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Ree is a seventeen year old girl, living in rural Missouri (in the Ozarks, on the periphery of Appalachia). She's forced to take care of her siblings alone, as her dad has vanished as a result of his involvement in the local methamphetamine trade, and her mom suffers from debilitating depression. One day the law shows up at her house and tells her that if she can't find her father (who had not appeared at a court date), her house would be seized by the state. This results in her travelling through the local community and trying to break through the code of silence that permeates the local drug culture.
This is a pretty good film. I found it worth mentioning because it gives a fairly good, non-bigoted portrayal of the white rural underclass, which differed quite a bit from the usual depiction of "white trash". The environment is actually kinda similar to the one I grew up in, down to the Carhartt jackets that the characters wear, from the broke down machinery in the yard to the production of meth to the extreme distrust and hostility to law enforcement (I've always been under the belief that the "stop snitching" mentality is just as strong in much of rural America as it is in the inner cities, if not stronger...and in fact the poorest areas in the U.S. are in the rural communities, especially Arkansas, not in the inner cities). The film is also very well acted and shot.
Just thought that I'd mention it.
Ree is a seventeen year old girl, living in rural Missouri (in the Ozarks, on the periphery of Appalachia). She's forced to take care of her siblings alone, as her dad has vanished as a result of his involvement in the local methamphetamine trade, and her mom suffers from debilitating depression. One day the law shows up at her house and tells her that if she can't find her father (who had not appeared at a court date), her house would be seized by the state. This results in her travelling through the local community and trying to break through the code of silence that permeates the local drug culture.
This is a pretty good film. I found it worth mentioning because it gives a fairly good, non-bigoted portrayal of the white rural underclass, which differed quite a bit from the usual depiction of "white trash". The environment is actually kinda similar to the one I grew up in, down to the Carhartt jackets that the characters wear, from the broke down machinery in the yard to the production of meth to the extreme distrust and hostility to law enforcement (I've always been under the belief that the "stop snitching" mentality is just as strong in much of rural America as it is in the inner cities, if not stronger...and in fact the poorest areas in the U.S. are in the rural communities, especially Arkansas, not in the inner cities). The film is also very well acted and shot.
Just thought that I'd mention it.