Requiem for an American Dream
Roberto Minervini’s The Other Side is a scrawny, off-putting mutt of a movie, one you’re likely to overlook, but shouldn’t—it has scads to say about two very different but very vital contemporary situations. On one hand, it’s a scalding portrait of the United States we try not to think about, the self-medicating America lost in the margins of red-state poverty. On the other, the film’s very existence is a testament to how we no longer can, or choose not to, distinguish between fiction and reality. Читать дальше...