(December 1, 2020 at 10:59 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: 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 could certainly be correct about the fork incident, but as I said, I know people who have experienced this exact thing or something nearly identical, so it is not inaccurate. Are you saying that its an over used cliché, because I can relate to that. Perhaps it would be better to not use such shorthand and demonstrate his discomfort in a better way.
You may be referring more to the book than the film because I also didn't see the connection between the people/culture of the film and devotion to Trump. But let's be clear, Trump does have this segment of the population eating out of his hand. I just didn't see the film really explaining that; perhaps the book did attempt that.
What makes you say Vance's story is not true? Are there other sources that conflict?
Why is it so?
~Julius Sumner Miller
~Julius Sumner Miller
