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« on: March 08, 2011, 03:37:48 PM »

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There are of course many wild and wonderful whites in West Virginia, I guess, I've never been there, but this refers to a family named White. Specifically, the huge extended clan of Jesco White, aka
Dancin Outlaw Small | Large
of the 1991 documentary of the same name. That documentary was colorful and sometimes dark, this one is dark and sometimes colorful. Wether they are wonderful or not is highly debatable, but they are certainly wild.

There is a little bit of the famous mountain tap dancing from Dancin Outlaw in this but it's mainly the Jerry Springer / Cops / Intervention esque lifestyle of the Whites. We most often observe them in their preferred mode: partying!  which in the White family is usually some combination of listening to country music, smoking pot, snorting coke and swearing and carrying on. Unfortunately, with fun and merriment of this nature there is often trouble just around the corner. Thats really an understatement here. There's a line between colorful and crazy and SCARY and crazy and we're taken back and forth across it numerous times. The idea of self control of any kind is a joke.

At any rate, that's the life of a White, in good times or bad, it's all one long rampage.


This is a Dickhouse production and it has some of the trademarks of their flagship enterprise Jackass. It kind of reminded me of old school reality tv, when everything was about being raw and shocking instead of being all about editing and "drama" like now. You could write a book about the social and political implications in this thing, from the fact that half of them are on assistance for imaginary ailments, to the fact that they are coal miners several generations deep to the more obvious Winter's Bone-y drug issues. It's a wild and often ugly ride and parts of it are likely to  p**s you off regardless of where you are on the political spectrum and how open minded you are. and you can be assured the Whites don't give a s**t !

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« Reply #1 on: March 08, 2011, 03:51:03 PM »

I caught this the other night and loved it (is LOVED really the right word?).  It was really fascinating and occasionally enfuriating in a weird way.  In particular - SLIGHT SPOILER ALERT:  the scene when one of the Whites gives birth and then snorts what appears to be cocaine right there in the hospital room in front of the baby!  (an interview that I heard with Johnny Knoxville on Opie and Anthony yesterday revealed that she was actually snorting ground up painkillers).  I now need to seek out 'Dancin Outlaw'...
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« Reply #2 on: March 08, 2011, 04:02:09 PM »

dancin outlaw is much lighter.


yeah as far as that scene, regardless of the substance I don't know that snorting anything in that situation is really all that acceptable /normal?
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« Reply #3 on: March 08, 2011, 04:38:23 PM »

There's a part of me that is fascinated to see this, and a part that is already mortified without having see a single frame. I've been hearing about it lots.
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« Reply #4 on: March 08, 2011, 05:37:59 PM »

http://www.badmovies.org/forum/index.php?action=printpage;topic=3154.0


ancient thread on Dancin Outlaw started by me under old alias
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« Reply #5 on: March 09, 2011, 10:40:14 AM »

yeah as far as that scene, regardless of the substance I don't know that snorting anything in that situation is really all that acceptable /normal?

Yep, I was filled with a combination of fascination and contempt (a common combination in this movie).
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« Reply #6 on: March 10, 2011, 11:02:55 AM »

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ancient thread on Dancin Outlaw started by me under old alias


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« Reply #7 on: March 10, 2011, 11:41:40 AM »

DANCING OUTLAW was one of the most bizarre doc I've ever seen. I'll have to look for this.

The other end of the 'White Trash' genre of documentaries is the extremely despressing ans disturbing BROTHER'S KEEPER (1992). It's about four middle aged rural New York brothers who are all illiterate and live together on the old family farm in a shack, sleeping in the same bed. One of them who is near death with cancer dies, and it is suspected one of his brothers killed him out of mercy. The brothers are exposed to the outside world for the first time during the murder trial.

The scene where one of them is literally paralysed with fear on the witness stand is one of the saddest and most disturbing things I've ever seen in a movie - and I've seen lots of disturbing movies.
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« Reply #8 on: March 10, 2011, 01:53:09 PM »

I never saw Brothers keeper but I remember the promos for it. seemed very disturbing

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