Usually when I review a movie, I know my opinion of it at the end. I know when I really hate a movie, and I know when I really like a movie. I even know when I think it's sort of good or not that bad. This movie, was confusing.
I do like how it's a glimpse into a group of people, left behind by the American Dream. Living in poverty but taking it step by stop. It's a microscope on an unprivileged group that we don't really talk about, outside of election season I guess. Usually, they're at the back of my mind, which is due to me being a privileged woman living a middle class lifestyle. This movie sort of forces me to confront that reality. Kids digging through trash cans, being forced to sell magazines for an abusive boss. Even despite that harsh lifestyle, they seem to have fun for the most part. There is a comradery among the group. They feel like a group of friends, and they sing as they go from town to town and state to state.
Unfortunately, it loses its novelty the more the movie drags out. Sure, I do like a microscope onto an unprivileged group, but when you take away that novelty, it's a 3 hour film following a group of unlikable people. They do have a comradery, but they're also racist and gross. So much misogyny, so many trashy actions like flashing their private parts and having sex in other people's yards. How they talk about sex is crude. All of those gross actions stretched out for 3 hours. Yeah, it loses its novelty fairly quick.
I do like how it's a glimpse into a group of people, left behind by the American Dream. Living in poverty but taking it step by stop. It's a microscope on an unprivileged group that we don't really talk about, outside of election season I guess. Usually, they're at the back of my mind, which is due to me being a privileged woman living a middle class lifestyle. This movie sort of forces me to confront that reality. Kids digging through trash cans, being forced to sell magazines for an abusive boss. Even despite that harsh lifestyle, they seem to have fun for the most part. There is a comradery among the group. They feel like a group of friends, and they sing as they go from town to town and state to state.
Unfortunately, it loses its novelty the more the movie drags out. Sure, I do like a microscope onto an unprivileged group, but when you take away that novelty, it's a 3 hour film following a group of unlikable people. They do have a comradery, but they're also racist and gross. So much misogyny, so many trashy actions like flashing their private parts and having sex in other people's yards. How they talk about sex is crude. All of those gross actions stretched out for 3 hours. Yeah, it loses its novelty fairly quick.
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