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The Mrs. and I saw "Please Give" last week based on a few reviews that said it was a good, off beat movie. It's an interesting way to escape the summer heat without being subjected to car chases and multiple explosions. There weren't any teenagers at the showing so that might help some decide on whether to go or not.
"Winter's Bone" is definitely a worthwhile way to spend an hour and forty five minutes of your time. The lead actress, Jennifer Lawrence, portrays a teenage heroine on the trail of her bail bond skipping, meth cooking father back into the way back hills of the Missouri Ozark mountains south of Branson, MO. It's dark, relentlessly grim, and captivating. This isn't a feel good, popcorn burning movie of summertime fluff. Don't wait for it to come out on Netflix before you see this movie.
Peace, good beer and barbecue!
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in films about rural folks, i.e. they're all happy-go-lucky or they're all lazy, ignorant psychopaths.
A teenage girl has the responsibility for her mother and two siblings' welfare loaded onto her shoulders when her father unexpectedly goes missing. Was he murdered? Are the remaining family members safe?
As she realizes she alone cannot bear the weight, and increasingly inquires about her father's fate, she realizes some mysteries are better left alone.
This slow-simmering drama never loses its tight focus, its almost unrelenting pressure, to wander down side roads or fool-the-viewer plot twists. It's honest, straightforward storytelling which succeeds because of its plausibility and the skill of all the principal actors, all of whom appear so natural as to more approximate participants in a documentary than dramatic actors.
This is the finest American film I've seen in some time; there is nary an exaggerated, excess frill to it.
It may make you think twice about that vacation to the Missouri Ozarks, however.
Maybe not lazy or ignorant, but all the male characters in this one are pretty much psychopaths. The only exception was (maybe) the Army recruiter.
I liked much about this movie, but it certainly did not sidestep any southern cliches.
correct that perhaps there were some trite characters but where this film differs is in making their situations believable, inescapable. What is a person who doesn't want to relocate and leave behind his culture and family to do if he wishes to remain in a non-urban setting? Jobs are gone, prospects are slim to none for many.
I will say that Teardrop, with his meth sniffing and gun toting and ax wielding, did not seem that mentally sound to me. Maybe the cop was not a psychopath, but he was both corrupt and ready to have a shoot out with Mr. T.
All in all, this movie does not make country living look all that attractive.
Consider that this film was done in the Ozark Mountains area of Missouri. At last estimate, there were over 53,000 meth users in the Show Me State. Missouri has had a long and troubled past with meth production and as a distribution center for the finished product.
Not that long ago, illegal liquor or "moonshine" was a big problem. Now it's "hillbilly crack".
Peace, good beer and barbecue!
some good friends of mine live down near Bolivar. It's always seemed a bit less gothic than portrayed in the movie, in fact an all around pretty nice place. But that's the nature of movies, and that's OK, in a noir or neo-noir, you don't get bright sunny vistas, you get darkness and cold.
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Of course Netflix will have em before they come to my town :^)
Phil
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