Irritant Tragedy -- ++spoilers in this review++

Rating: 5/10 (25 April 2008)

**Spoilers**
Ugh! Husband found this in the bargain bin at the supermarket and said, "Oh! This is such a great movie!" He's pretty picky about movies, not liking chick flicks and those of that ilk. So I thought, "Hey! Why not watch it!" What tragedy. Some reviewers here complain that it's unrealistic. No, it's realistic alright. The classic "Nice Guys Don't Get Laid" by Marcus P. Meleton. The bad guy, the one who steals other men's women, gets the slut who sleeps with every single brother, and has the nerve to tell her future husband, "It was Samuel I loved." Yeah, right.
And then, the prodigal son goes on to become a bootlegger, and I guess most Brad Pitt fans and anti-establishment people are supposed to feel sorry for him, because he put his wife and kids in jeopardy with his illegal activities. This kind of selfishness happens in real life all the time.
The oldest son, who truly cares about helping his community grow, and who loves a woman so much, he's willing to take secondhand, nay *third*hand goods, ends up marrying a woman who is such a weenie that she'd kill herself for a man who doesn't even love her, in some kind of pitiful Sylvia Plath-like angst.
Augh! All too realistic and demonstrative of the melodrama of people with certain psychiatric disorders.
5 out of 10, rather than zero, because although it was irritating as heck, it is a true tragedy that I see time and time again in real life.