My Dad's hometown is in western Maryland very close to West Virginia. On the drive into town you fly over a two lane road that winds up and down hills for hours. You pass small houses and plots of land squeezed in between the hills and the creeks and rivers. It seems like a narrow landscape to live in. You would feel claustrophobic I think living there, hemmed in by the topography without a car to carry you to a bigger town. If you have been to any depressed, non-college town, small town on the East Coast you will recognize the setting of this film immediately. Its depicts the privations of rural America for two hours without dwelling upon sterotypes or red state/blue state tropes. That is an achievement. The girl is beautiful like the girls on those MTV reality shows about teen moms only not a fucking idiot. Breaking Bad is a TV progame about Meth in its 4th(?) season and you will feel more in tune with the media meme of meth in Appalacia or whatever that means in fifteen minutes of this film than 50 episodes into the AMC show.
It's also got something to do with Antigone
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