If you're not a South junkie you may not enjoy this movie at all - it was all about the South, the music, the story, the weird yet profound deep south of the Americana. We travel with Jim White, a folk singer, to various small town USA and visited barber shops, fast food joints, trailer parks and... you get it, churches, everywhere we go, we see and hear things so ordinary yet so iconic, mesmerizing and poignant.
"I love the small town. It's not even a half-mile across the whole town. Very small. This way over here we have the church. Over here we have a truck stop. Over here we have the juke joint. Back behind me we have the prison. It's your typical Southern town. Some people go to church. Some don't. It's just one of those small towns." — The Mayor, Ferriday, Louisiana
Some complain this movie is stereotyped since all it portrays was how poor and strange the South is - get over it, if it's part of the South then why not show it? I am sure there're movies depicting filthy rich white Southerners (maybe a redneck too, like the chimpanzee who's ruling the US of A) that make people think the South is all rosy and elegant and gone-with-the-windish, then so be it. You see only what you choose to see.
Love the music and the cinematography in this flick. Heck, you can't get a bad picture of the South.
