Special Features



Anyone catch the Special Features? It was as interesting as the film itself!
Of note was ...

When the goofy cousin is being interviewed, and the little girl is listening to him talk about robbing people's trailers and committing various violent acts. She laughs when he talks about getting high, and one can sense that she has already, at her young age, tried it herself. But when he talks about the crimes he has committed, she clearly looks disturbed by what he is saying. It is very telling, in my opinion.

Charles and his friend talking about how the mining companies have destroyed the beauty of the land (which is very valid and true), but then tossing trash and beer bottles onto the ground. Talk about irony!


I had to feel bad for Annie Mae as she described her mother being killed by her father, and how this affected her. She seemed so sad and lost. But then, in the same breath, she began to speak of her violent tendencies and the "I don't give a f---" attitude reared its ugly head.

There were many other interesting and ironic moments. I highly recommend watching the Special Features if you found yourself drawn into this documentary the way that I was!

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And when Derek was showing the graffiti on the wooden post that "fckin' rednecks 'n sheeit" wrote. Do they not consider themselves to be rednecks? When he's over there shooting that bottle in his backyard, he yells to the camera "That's how rednecks do this sheeit!" Hmmmm....

Annie Mae. Tsk tsk tsk. That is one woman you don't want to meet in a dark alley someplace. There's a fine line between fighting dirty and fighting psychotically, and I think she crossed it long ago!

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I got the idea that Derek was saying it proudly, about the graffiti. Again sort of a "that's how us rednecks do it" type of attitude?

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Ah, I think I understand now. It really is a separate culture from us! It takes a lot of prior knowledge to understand their attitudes toward certain things. Very interesting.

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