If you want to watch a video starring the most fucked up people in this country, this is a good place to start. The Whites are an unbelievably sad family living in West Virginia. As one lawyer interviewed in the movie puts it, they are a relic of mountain culture, where people were incredibly isolated. The Whites don't work, but have figured out how to scam Social Security, and they are prolific drug dealers. What the Whites do well is drugs, drinking, and fighting. Occasionally they kill people, sometimes getting caught for it.
The most degrading and dirty scene in the movie is when two White children (now adults) visit their mother on her 84th birthday. They start with singing and cake, and quickly devolve into snorting xanax, smoking pot, and myriads of other drugs in front of their grieving mother, who hates the drugs and doesn't want to be around when they do it. The movie features depressing bars, depressing scenery, depressing lives, babies being taken by CPS, babies drinking coca-cola (one kid drinks 8 cokes and goes ballistic, doing flips on his bed), lines being snorted on the bedside table of the hospital right after childbirth, and more!
As Jonathan put it, you need to take a shower after watching this one. Definitely good for the documentary junkie in you-- puts things in perspective about your own life. Not a good one if your depressed from over-drinking the night before.
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