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I am deeply engrossed in David Sutherland's Country Boys, a six-hour documentary on Frontline this week. The third and final instalment airs tonight.
My favourite press review of the documentary is from Robert Lloyd of the Los Angeles Times:
There is also an excellent backgrounder on the pbs website about poverty in America.
My favourite press review of the documentary is from Robert Lloyd of the Los Angeles Times:
It's a long and at times slow film that some viewers will undoubtedly find tedious and frustrating, though I would count its length and pace among its virtues. … [B]y taking its time, it sensitizes you to nuance, until the smallest most awkward stabs at connection or expression become terribly moving. …
If there is a message to extract, it might be that every kid needs a sympathetic adult in his life, but I think that's almost an incidental point. I'm not sure Sutherland has a point, beyond awakening a feeling of common humanity in his viewers, and I can't image a better one. Insofar as any edited work can be executed nonjudgmentally, this comes close to that ideal. It's a rare thing on television, such passionate dispassion -- but then, it's a rare thing anywhere.
There is also an excellent backgrounder on the pbs website about poverty in America.
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Frontline is airing the documentary in three instalments. The final one was tonight. All three will be available on the website, so as long as you've got high speed...
For everyone: further recommended reading on poverty in America... David Halberstam's "Hell and High Water" in the November 2005 issue of Vanity Fair
God, you are like so boring.
For Jason... It's kinda like the Globe and Mail with pizzazz