Winter’s Bone dealt with a strata of people that generally ignored by the mainstream culture. Most people would seem to want to forget that people in deep Appalachia live like that. Urban poverty is more chic I guess.
I just truly thought the character of the young girl shone incredibly.
At least unlike Deliverance which so many folks today treat like a documentary...Winter Bone has some foot in the reality of meth industry existence.
Deliverance...I mean get real. I spend a lot of time in real Appalachia..they may shoot you if you get in their pot field and are very leery of strangers. But snatching strangers so they can sodomize fat men?
That is about as out of character as Muslims stealing pigs..why did I think of pigs..lol
Hollywood. Probably too much coke in creating Deliverance...nicely filmed though..the filters and use of light and angles and whatnot was superb.
Never read Dickey's novel so not sure how the movie follows it. Boorman went on to more things for sure.
But the stereotype Deliverance created about eastern Mountain folks and banjos will last a long time still unfairly.
Urban poverty is more excused. White poverty ignored..always been like that. There is also less predation unless caught up in it..another reason it's ignored.
but let's don't forget..and since I live very near where Appalachia starts on the eastern slope of the Cumberland mountains in TN...I'm about 30 miles due west and have several folks from the true region of Smith, Jackson and Cumberland counties who work for me. What was portrayed in Bone was a tiny segment...it is simply not like that as a rule. Most country folks work in nearby towns and have normal lives. Which again differentiates it from urban lower class which is more all encompassing of the community with criminal exchange and crime and illegitimacy etc.
ok...sociology lesson over...I really liked the movie and glad it got some notice.
But I still am very jacked up with Bridges asCogburn..incredible
and God bless the Cohens...they never really insult me with PC crap and preaching as a rule even in O’ Brother..at least it was light hearted and satirical treatment of my homestate
a state too green so they had to sepia it..true