Hillbilly Elegy is a Netflix original film adapted by director Howard based on JD Vance's New York Times best-selling biography of the same name. As of December 7, 2020, it has only 25% of the scores of 220 film critics on the American film review website Rotten Tomatoes, while the score of 1033 viewers is 84%. If only from the freshness given by film critics, this movie can be said to be a veritable bad movie. So, is this really a bad movie of no good?
The film is adapted from the real experience of the American writer JD Vance in Ohio. Yes, it is from Ohio, the swing state that often influences the results of American elections. JD grew up living in Dayton, Ohio with her half-sister and her mother who frequently changed boyfriends. His mother became pregnant with him at the age of 18 and obtained a nurse's license through night school studies, which helped him and his sister Lindsay. However, his mother not only has a strong tendency to manic depression and violence due to her premature end of adolescence and young and unbearable family experience, but she also became a drug abuser using the convenience of work. It is hard to imagine that children who grew up in this environment will not be affected. Even if JD is early, it is inevitable that JD will be affected by unemployed friends and the desperate family environment, and once go astray. Fortunately, his grandmother came forward at a critical moment to give him love and tell him that the family's responsibilities need to be borne by him. After witnessing his grandmother and the staff who distributed food for free to ask for an extra dinner, JD finally began to understand that no matter how difficult his situation is and the future is elusive, he needs to fight for the whole family on his own. He began to work to earn money, study hard, completed his undergraduate studies with the remuneration of joining the Marine Corps, and applied for a graduate student at Yale University Law School. No matter how you look at it, it is a touching story that makes people feel lingering. In order to get the film out of political factors, the director even downplayed his motivation and psychology for participating in the Marine Corps. As the director said in an interview with CBS this morning, he wanted to tell It is a story about the family, a story that even if no one cares, the family members have their own problems, but they will always support you, love you, and encourage you. So why are Hollywood's elite film critics so hostile to this movie?
The Democratic Party and the Republican Party in the United States are really two very interesting parties. The elites of the democratic parties often regard human rights fighters as their mission, opening up racial equality and closing basic human rights. But they are the most hypocritical, cunning, and selfish. They don't care about or care about the living conditions of their colleagues in the same country, but often use their own set of so-called value standards to demand these compatriots. They are full of contempt and discrimination towards the country folks living in these central states of the United States, shaping them into a group of simple-minded, cynical, and inhumane country buns. Even Thales, the former country princess of the United States and the current pop queen, portrayed these people who love to listen to country music and have conservative values as ugly, cheesy, and violent in the TV video of his song "You Need to Calm Down". Brainless anti-comers. This is the general mentality of social elites, who feel extremely good and call themselves moral fighters. However, this kind of impatient, unwilling to listen, and self-righteous attitude towards another group of people really makes people quite puzzled about the core values they claim. If you keep your mouth open and advocate the equality of human rights, shouldn’t you, before judging others, carefully listen to their thoughts, realistically consider his environment, and communicate peacefully with him instead of just advocating political correctness? flag. Before accusing them of being the culprits of their difficulties in life, should they also weigh how they entered the so-called higher education institutions, how to enjoy the privileges that others cannot enjoy, and how to base their own interests on the sacrifices of others. Of course, they don't have this time. They are busy eating human blood buns while clamoring for happiness and equality.
The big Republicans are even more interesting. It can be said that they come from them. Even if they are in power, they cannot avoid being looked down upon and despised by the democrats. They understand the current life of their supporters, understand their basic demands, and know more about ways to improve their lives, but they cannot and are not willing to make those efforts. What they have to do is to be more extreme than their supporters in various policies, only in this way their supporters will vote for them as always and continue to keep their black hats. These people value the education of their children but are stingy in national education investment, are cautious in the face of viruses, but are more anti-intellectual in science and general knowledge, and are full of religious teachings and conservative values. They should be developed with embryonic extracts when their lives are in danger. The medicine can be used without blinking. Drug abuse, domestic violence, unfair education, they certainly don't care. Because only when education is more unfair, drugs are abused, and families are more violent, their fundamentals will be more stable. And these simple but blind country people continue to walk on the extreme route they lead. The job was gone, but people from other countries were robbed of it; drug abuse was forced by the living environment; the epidemic broke out because the masks and vaccines were useless. Why do the elites of the Republican Party have the heart to continue to fool and manipulate their voters and are not willing to sincerely improve their living and educational environment? Because if they are all educated, their living environment is improved, and their horizons are opened up, they are worried that they will all become supporters of the Democratic Party.
Going back to this movie, Netflix is indeed very rich. The annual investment in self-produced movies can be said to be very rich. Most of them are sofa romances that even people who like to watch romance movies can't watch. This time, Hillbilly Elegy, which is adapted from real people and real things, actually wants to tell a simple story. What he wants to tell is how it is for a person to be loved and guided in the harsh environment of his innate environment. important. The love of his family can encourage him and support him to run hard towards a future that may not be bright. I don't understand how this story has stepped on the pain points of the democrats. The maliciousness towards this movie hits like a tsunami. This film does not focus on political issues too much, he just wants to tell you that everything is not as simple as it shows.
This is not a bad movie with nothing, nor is it a hit-to-the-point movie. But it definitely shouldn't be treated as bad reviews collectively by the so-called elite film critics who have the right to speak.
(An interesting digression, in reality, JD received great help from his Chinese teacher Cai Meiyun at Yale Law School and wrote this book with his encouragement. It is the famous tiger mother)
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