Had high hopes about this as Debra Granik is the director behind such captivating movies as Winter Bone and Down to the Bone.
This, however, is a very low-key, unassuming documentary about his friend Ron Hall (who played this sinister Thump Milton character in Winter's Bone). This old Santa-looking fella is a biker and a former Vietnam veteran. This film shows him in several war veteran/biker events (I couldn't quite figure out if there's an actual separate subculture of war veteran bikers...it seems there is). Hall is also dating a Mexican woman and at some point later in the movie her twin sons from Mexico come over.
It's a very quiet but thought-provoking film about average Americans in a very ordinary setting...largely concentrating on war traumas inside people and how to transcend the negative influences of war through emotional openness and human kindness.
This, however, is a very low-key, unassuming documentary about his friend Ron Hall (who played this sinister Thump Milton character in Winter's Bone). This old Santa-looking fella is a biker and a former Vietnam veteran. This film shows him in several war veteran/biker events (I couldn't quite figure out if there's an actual separate subculture of war veteran bikers...it seems there is). Hall is also dating a Mexican woman and at some point later in the movie her twin sons from Mexico come over.
It's a very quiet but thought-provoking film about average Americans in a very ordinary setting...largely concentrating on war traumas inside people and how to transcend the negative influences of war through emotional openness and human kindness.