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Do people really live like this in south??

posted 10 years ago by mpboylanjr
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This movie was really done well and I'm a huge Cage fan which means I've say through some really bad ones but once in a while he gets the right script and makes a really good movie. Anyway I can't believe people live like this down south. Really trashy and almost you need subtitles to listen to the way these hillbilly hicks talk. I mean is this the English language or some type of white trash code talk. The places and filth they live in is so backward it's hard to fathom. I'm a white male and I live in NYC and have seen my share of weirdos and all different people from all walks of life but the people in this film take the cake. I've been down south but apparently not in these small towns in the sticks were it's like a different world. It's like you may as well be in another country or on a different planet. Really mind blowing lol. It was a good film and Tye Sheridan and cage were great and showed me a part of the south I never want to visit and didn't kno it was like that. A real eye opener and good drama.

THERES NO ROOM IN MY CIRCUS TENT FOR YOU !!!!

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[–] biggiebaby 10 years ago

Don't be so provential. There's a great big world out there.
Funny, how people are so often that thing they ridicule.

[–] filmluvinruse 10 years ago

I was poor my whole life and I don't recall anything like this. My family was civil, worked, & tried to make the ends meet. I have seen families that struggle with alcohol & drug addiction that resemble some of the characters in this story. So they do exist, but it's not always been that common.

I have come here to chew bubble gum and kick ass, and I'm all out of bubble gum.

[–] quigley_brown-1 10 years ago

I think they over did the redneck lifestyle in this.

[–] gapal 10 years ago

No. They didn't. Here in the Deep South, you see a lot of people living in those kind of conditions or worse.

[–] Thinkerr 10 years ago

Why do you feel the need to tell your race and sex?

[–] typhoon-71340 10 years ago

There is a whole giant world outside of your environment kid. You can choose to explore it or ignore it. There is no "right" choice. But thinking that this isn't a reality for a lot of folks just makes you seem like an ignorant jack*ss. There is poverty everywhere...south, north, west, east. The U.S. has one of the highest poverty rates out of all the developed nations.

[–] ehbunner 9 years ago

I think what you are maybe over looking is that the story focused on those types of people, it's not that every one in the area would be like that(minus the accent) but you have the prostitutes, the workers who seemed like normal folk(how they talk is pretty irrelevant to them being trashy that would be like not understanding someone from say Ireland and then claiming they are trashy)Gary's family who was trashy and Joe who was a convict and not really trashy but far from classy