Posted on 12/03/2020 5:53:13 PM PST by Rummyfan
Elites won’t allow any sympathy for poor whites
Netflix’s new adaptation of JD Vance’s “Hillbilly Elegy” is devastating for the left’s political narrative. How do I know that? Because so many leftists are trying to keep people from watching it.
Critics complain that the movie has too many noble country folk — though neither Vance’s 2016 memoir nor the film version is exactly focused on nobility as such. They even gripe that the autobiography of a white guy from the hill country doesn’t have any major black characters. Well, yes.
For a film made out of a bestselling book by a well-known liberal filmmaker (Ron Howard) and featuring Glenn Close, Amy Adams and Gabriel Besso, the movie seems surprisingly controversial. And why? Because, as I mentioned above, it’s devastating for the left’s political narrative.
As Princeton professor Robert P. George noted, responding to one negative review, “Do you think [those] who don’t want you to watch ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ might have . . . I dunno . . . an agenda? . . . The campaign against the film — made by the standard issue liberal filmmaker Ron Howard, by the way — is purely political.”
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Watched it last week. I found it excellent.
Got the notification from Netflix ( use my son’s account), saw Glenn Close looking like a “hillbilly” wearing a t shirt with an American flag on it, and knew right then and there it would be mocking Red America.
Dear God, I am sick of these people.
That was Glenn Close? Oh my.
WAY more politically correct than the book...
The movie doesn’t mock people. It actually shows a sympathetic side to middle America. That’s what the lefties are upset about 😉
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I object to these people being called liberals.
I’ve heard the joke that when they wear that level of prosthetisis, they’re going for an Oscar. Case in point, the 2003 movie “Monster”.
I’d recommend the Charles Murray book “Coming Apart”.
“That was Glenn Close? Oh my”
Yeah saw the movie, I had no idea it was the Rabbit killer Close. Based on the the end of the movie “real” video of the actual people depicted she was a dead ringer for the Grandma character.
I missed Any Adams as well, she put on a ton of weight and make up for the roll. (Well I hope she did)
I know the guys behind it here in L.A. lol. We have a saying here for center-right producers and writers: studio leftards greenlight projects faster and happier when a Dem is president, regardless of politics..
Read the book. Saw the movie. Part of the culture protrayed.
The book is a great commentary on the culture. The movie is just a snippet of the book though well played.
Read the book then watch the movie.
BTW. JD marries a person of color. How can the move be racist? Eastern Kentucky tends to be anti racist hillbillies (but they are called “Briars” when they are from KY) because many of them have mixed ancestry. They do not discriminate they dislike all outsiders meddling in their lives.
The discussion brings to mind the Korean film Parasite, where working class people despised by the elite got revenge.
Here in the Philippines, we watch a lot of “K dramas” because
They tend to leave out pornography and gratuitous violence and emphsize family ties...and some of them are now on netflix in the US.
But I also noticed the struggle of the lower classes against the elite families of Korea is the theme or a subplot of a lot of Korean dramas set in the present time.
That theme is popular here in the Philippines, where the elite (part Chinese) families make it hard for outsiders to break out of poverty.
Interesting.
The book is always better.
Ping!
Thanks! Just catching up from yesterday! :)
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