This rare peek into what life was really like in the 19th century American Midwest was almost shocking the first time I viewed it twenty years ago, but after several viewings and well into adulthood I genuinely appreciate the perspective Wisconsin Death Trip gave me.
Though it sounds like a 90s alternative rock band, this documentary features real photographs and news clippings from a small town where people frequently got sick and died at young ages, and even were murdered or committed suicide. One of the most intriguing characters is a woman who seems much more modern than her time period would allow traipses around town doing cocaine and causing mayhem, which provides comic relief to the heaviness of the subject matter and Victorian-style photographs of corpses.
People have always been people, life was not ideal when people lived as rugged individualists, and in fact before vaccines and modern medicines an overwhelming number of children died before ever reaching adulthood. This documentary should be required viewing for any anti-vaxxer in my opinion.
I want to give it a 10 because of how much it shook me, but while the narrator's monologue is critical to giving the film cohesion, his voice and diction are slightly irritating to me.
Though it sounds like a 90s alternative rock band, this documentary features real photographs and news clippings from a small town where people frequently got sick and died at young ages, and even were murdered or committed suicide. One of the most intriguing characters is a woman who seems much more modern than her time period would allow traipses around town doing cocaine and causing mayhem, which provides comic relief to the heaviness of the subject matter and Victorian-style photographs of corpses.
People have always been people, life was not ideal when people lived as rugged individualists, and in fact before vaccines and modern medicines an overwhelming number of children died before ever reaching adulthood. This documentary should be required viewing for any anti-vaxxer in my opinion.
I want to give it a 10 because of how much it shook me, but while the narrator's monologue is critical to giving the film cohesion, his voice and diction are slightly irritating to me.