RE: Hillbilly Elegy
December 1, 2020 at 10:59 am
(This post was last modified: December 1, 2020 at 11:04 am by The Grand Nudger.)
The forks thing is a movie trope commonly used as a placeholder for class and class anxiety, and class inferiority - exactly as it was in this movie.
You didn't miss the authors politics, the director left them out - which is a blessing and a shame. A blessing because he's a nutball who wrote that caricature of imaginary hillbillys to explain why the right was going full on trumpet, and a shame because it just doesn't make any sense without it.
-and by sense, I only mean that it makes sense that the author wrote his characters a particular way, when you understand that it was a prologue morality play to his comments about a culture in decline.
There's nothing offensive about a persons desire for self improvement and vances story is most certainly not true as told.
You didn't miss the authors politics, the director left them out - which is a blessing and a shame. A blessing because he's a nutball who wrote that caricature of imaginary hillbillys to explain why the right was going full on trumpet, and a shame because it just doesn't make any sense without it.
-and by sense, I only mean that it makes sense that the author wrote his characters a particular way, when you understand that it was a prologue morality play to his comments about a culture in decline.
There's nothing offensive about a persons desire for self improvement and vances story is most certainly not true as told.
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