Though I have ventured through the American South on a few occasions, it has always remained to me a deeply mysterious place. This superbly photographed documentary shed some light and dispelled some long-standing myths for me.
For example, I had formerly believed that the South was a land still deeply divided along colour lines. I see now that that's impossible -- there are no black people in the South! So how could racism possibly rear it's ugly head? It can't! Yes, friends, the truth about the South is that it is a land full to bursting of friendly but misunderstood white folks, who may not have much formal education, but are endless fonts of homespun wisdom, tattoo their bodies with all their regrets and can even quote Goethe.
I highly recommend this film. If Diane Arbus had decided to use her talent for bad rather than good and then went out to make a film, then Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus is exactly the film she would have made!
For example, I had formerly believed that the South was a land still deeply divided along colour lines. I see now that that's impossible -- there are no black people in the South! So how could racism possibly rear it's ugly head? It can't! Yes, friends, the truth about the South is that it is a land full to bursting of friendly but misunderstood white folks, who may not have much formal education, but are endless fonts of homespun wisdom, tattoo their bodies with all their regrets and can even quote Goethe.
I highly recommend this film. If Diane Arbus had decided to use her talent for bad rather than good and then went out to make a film, then Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus is exactly the film she would have made!