Far too many comic beats revolving around violence against women

Rating: 10/10 (30 March 2019)

It's something I never thought I'd see in a film, like the movie is testing the outlier of societal responsibility. They actually punch her out and it's positioned as a comic moment. WTF? Yet the film plays as black humor, and seems to be completely amoral at worse, smug and condescending at best. Of course, these are all hillbillies and low class trash, the film gathers to make fun of them forgetting their own unconscionable taste. The entire film is way overdone and adds this unnecessary mid00s quirky indie aesthetic gone wrong, crossed with the sprawling montage epic that Scorsese popularized, populated with poptunes, and the story doesn't warrant it at all. It comes off as people given the Tonya Harding assignment who don't care about ice-skating but 'want to make it work.' I never thought I'd rather have a more conventional and serious approach as I admire postmodern, experimental, and offbeat works so long as the perspective is responsible and purposeful. I would call this mumbo jumbo filmmaking.