How realistic...
...does this movie portrait the american south? Everything seemed kinda old, wrecked and dirty, the people mostly poor. Is it eally like that in some areas there?
shareWith the exception of newer vehicles, all genuinely rural areas in Western nations look basically the same as they did 70 years ago or more.
Being a Southern Gothic drama/thriller, "Undertow" has a cool Southern ambiance with focus on the rural underbelly (which explains its title). Other films that are successful in this regard come to mind: "The General's Daughter," "Ode to Billy Joe," "I Walk the Line" (with Gregory Peck, 1970), "Mississippi Burning," "Squirm," "The Man in the Moon" and "The Skeleton Key."
The difference with “Undertow” is that it concentrates so exclusively on pastoral paucity that it cops a poetic post-apocalyptic ambiance.