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Winters Bone
This is the best film I have seen this year.
It is courageous, consistent and utterly humourless, which is entirely fitting.
A view of American society that rarely makes it into the cinema, the US underclass in all its hopelessness and dreadfulness; do not look for a rose tinted ending, it is true to its narrative.
The breakdown of society, the replacement of humane kindred spirit and support by a code of silence and violence.
We have the same dreadful state of affairs in the UK, and it needs open debate and a sense of urgency to tackle it.
Worth your time.
M
Follow Ups:
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"You don't need to be a Weatherman to know which way the wind blows"
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sdf
Saw it earlier this year.Riveting.Yes,there is a vast underclass of
drug dealers/users in the US.Plenty of it in Philly.I see the point behind legalisation.Prohibition was a ridiculous idea.I'm undecided on legalising hard drugs.
found anywhere in the lower 48.
Not uncommon in the UK.
I am a policeman, and spent 10 years in an area of London called Brixton.
Trying to tackle the crack problem I felt like the boy with his finger in the dyke.
Although not popular people need to get their head around the fact that drugs is a business, and tackle it like that, undercut the suppliers by making the drugs free on (in the UK) the National Health Service.
Remove 'cool' by treating it as an illness. You then:
1. Put the dealers out of business; so
2. Make the drugs less common on the street; and
3. Buy the drugs direct from the South American governments;
4. Taking money out of the hands of bandits.
Money that is plowed back into legitimate business, undermining decent institutions.
Did we learn nothing from prohibition? Seems not.
M
P.S. And I would make illegal dealing a MANDATORY life sentence.
"hi!"
...for illegal drug dealing if drugs become legal and free?
Maybe that should be the penalty for moonshining, too, or home brewing.
Cruel and unusual punishement.
I'm all for making some drugs legal and controlling and taxing them.
But let's not get carried away...
not every country feels sympathy for them.
mkuller,
I see smoking & drink in a different light to hard drugs.
My aim would be to take the money out of the business, and make the risks in getting and selling the drugs, outside of the legal routes, so high that people would not do it - hence the mandatory term.
Many people I have dealt with are users who deal to pay for their next fix. The free supply would remove them from the market.
Currently we have dealers giving away loss-leaders to 'make' new customers.
Hopefully the use of this mandatory term would be very rare. But these people are literally stealing lives.
...harsh sentences reduce crime - criminals don't think they'll get caught.
Look at all the people on death row.
...but does it work on the majority?
If it doesn't - change.
Which is precisely where we are with current legislation! Doesn't work, but we stick with it.
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Edits: 02/27/18
ordered.
Going from memory:Kid to his sister as she dresses a squirrel: "Do we have to eat the guts?"
Sister: "No, not yet."Woman to same sister retrieving evidence of her dad's death : "Get both of his arms. They know about that trick!"
There were more I can't remember. This movie was full of quotable lines.
Edits: 10/18/11
Quotable - yes, humour?
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