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Displeasure in stereotyping


Granted, I haven't seen this movie yet, but I have read the reviews and seen the clips and interviews from Sundance, and I have to say I'm rather offended at the stereotyping of Wisconsin residents from movie directors. First of all, there is no such place, "uber-small town" or otherwise, as Brown Valley, Wisconsin. Secondly, even if there was, I'm sick and tired of people stereotyping Wisconsin residents as some kind of backwoods, stunted, sheltered peons cut off from the rest of the world. I'm tired of people assuming Wisconsin is just one big cow-pie. Why couldn't this character be from an "uber-small town" in California, perhaps Florida, under the same stereotype? Or are states like those considered "too classy" to succumb to such a stereotype?

Contrary to (apparent) popular belief, we DO have indoor plumbing, and that fancy new-fangled thing called 'electricity' here.

Pisses me off.

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As soon as I read the thread title and the opening line: "Granted, I haven't seen this movie yet..." I skipped to the end. I'm so sick of people complaining about things when they are not informed.

There is no stereotyping in this movie that makes people from the mid-west look bad. You would have realized this if you actually saw the movie before you rushed to judgment.

Now please go run around in a corn field and get run over by a tractor.

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It dosent make fun of the Midwest. Maybe you should watch the film before you get offended by it.

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