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CHAT: Has any Freeper watched the Ron Howard film Hillbilly Elegy?

Posted on 07/17/2024 2:34:07 PM PDT by mowowie

My GF and myself are planning on watching thos movie tonight on netflix to get a better grasp on J.D.

Is it worth the 2 hours?


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KEYWORDS: appalachia; appalachians; bluecollar; bookdeals; hillbillyelegy; jdvance; moviedeals; ronhoward; vanity; westvirginny
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To: bigbob

No. I avoid people who can’t come up with anything to say but insults. Bye bob.


21 posted on 07/17/2024 2:49:33 PM PDT by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: Williams; discostu
Did you read, watch or analyze any of it?

No, but he did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.

22 posted on 07/17/2024 2:50:35 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: mowowie

I wouldn’t.

Hollywood crap.


23 posted on 07/17/2024 2:51:35 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Tall Wall Texan

It is all too common nowadays. A lot of Americans stuck in that lifestyle.


24 posted on 07/17/2024 2:52:46 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Repeal the Patriot Act; Abolish the DHS; reform FBI top to bottom!)
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To: discostu

Have you read his book? His sister verifies the authenticity of Vance’s description of his horrific childhood. She revealed in an interview that she wept when she read it and felt guilty that she didn’t stay behind to help her younger brother. Without his grandparents who took over his upbringing, Vance might be dead. His mother was a suicidal drug addict. Vance’s way out was to enlist in the Marines. He credits them with giving him direction and a sense of purpose.

I read the criticism of his book. His critics don’t believe anyone could survive what he endured. I don’t know how they have any real knowledge of his life. They just don’t like the message of the book which is his love of country and the love of his extended family that enabled him to rise about his circumstances.

His grandmother and grandfather were hillbillies from Kentucky who moved to Ohio after WWII to find work. They came with many others from the same part of Appalachia. Vance still identifies with the values they instilled in him. He despairs about the situation of these people who live in communities that no longer offer work and decent schools. These are poor whites who feel hopeless and turn to drugs like Oxycontin to cope. Nobody has been speaking for them. Vance’s eloquent book does. I found it incredibly moving. It’s not b.s.

You might want to read it before you make ignorant remarks.


25 posted on 07/17/2024 2:52:56 PM PDT by PA Presbyterian (Never Surrender!)
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To: discostu

Your troll is showing.


26 posted on 07/17/2024 2:54:21 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (We used to be a Republic, we are now a Fascist Klepto-Thugocracy.)
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To: mowowie

I’ve seen it. It’s kind of a Cinderalla story (except for a guy from Kentucky). It’s not bad, but its also not great. I’d give it a 6/10.

However, it’s a more compelling story than anything Obama wrote.


27 posted on 07/17/2024 2:56:18 PM PDT by rbg81
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To: All

Thanks everybody for your replies.
Gonna watch it during dinner tonight!


28 posted on 07/17/2024 2:56:34 PM PDT by mowowie
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To: PA Presbyterian

Alex Haley gave lots of interviews too. Didn’t make it so.


29 posted on 07/17/2024 2:57:36 PM PDT by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: mowowie; discostu

I read the book when it first came out and liked it very much. I did not detect “a bunch of bs” as taunted above. I gifted the book to others, as well. I supposed it helps that I’m only one generation away from being raised in that hardscrabble Scots-Irish culture myself, so it rang pretty true to me.


30 posted on 07/17/2024 2:57:47 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Either ‘the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State.’ --Donald Trump)
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To: RetiredTexasVet

Hey another guy with nothing but insults. you’re the troll.


31 posted on 07/17/2024 2:58:12 PM PDT by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: discostu
By people who lived there. And knew the family. And lived the events.

Of course. They felt humiliated at what things had come down to, the drugs and squalor, and their pride surfaced in denial.

32 posted on 07/17/2024 3:00:00 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Either ‘the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State.’ --Donald Trump)
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To: PA Presbyterian

Perfect explanation. I received it the same way.


33 posted on 07/17/2024 3:03:03 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Either ‘the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State.’ --Donald Trump)
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To: discostu

Is that you, Mitt?


34 posted on 07/17/2024 3:04:11 PM PDT by Kazan
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To: discostu

By who?


35 posted on 07/17/2024 3:06:12 PM PDT by vivenne
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To: discostu

Do you know them?


36 posted on 07/17/2024 3:07:01 PM PDT by vivenne
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To: discostu

“The book is pretty roundly derided as being a bunch of BS. Presumably the movie is also.”
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I just checked the movie review on Rotten Tomatoes. The critics (most of whom are industry America-hating leftists, of course) panned it and the audiences gave it great scores. So most FReepers will probably like it.


37 posted on 07/17/2024 3:07:30 PM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX)
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To: PA Presbyterian
FWIW, I don't know anyone personally who grew up in the Appalachia area. But I've done a couple of volunteer mission weeks there over the years. The lifestyles of the people living in poverty there are about as bad as words can get but still be talking about living in the U.S.

Both times I was there (for mission work) I asked the young adults to consider moving out and finding jobs in the rest of the country. Every time the response was that they're not moving from their home, despite the poverty. (FYI, you get the same response when you volunteer in the deep poverty of Alabama's Black Belt.)

Looks like Vance is one of the few who decided on the moving out option through the Marines.

38 posted on 07/17/2024 3:07:44 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: mowowie

I read the book. I thought it was quite good.


39 posted on 07/17/2024 3:09:12 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Sounds like a great idea, with the best of intentions. What could possibly go wrong?)
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To: PA Presbyterian

Thank you.


40 posted on 07/17/2024 3:10:11 PM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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