Should you choose to watch Netflix's adaptation of Jd Vance's controversial novel, pay close attention to the opening scenes. There's a small concession here which might change your perspective on everything that follows: though positioned as a memoir, this is not a story about the place where the author spent most of his childhood. Rather, it's about the place where he sometimes summered with his grandparents. It's an outsider's perspective couched as something far more intimate, and as such, its self-deprecating pose comes across as deeply patronising.
The place in question is Middletown, Ohio - one of numerous small towns in a part of Appalachia originally settled by Scots and Irish immigrants who struggled to scrape a living on the poor soil, achieving a brief flush of prosperity as the region was exploited for its metals but gradually declining again afterwards. Few of the characters in Ron Howard's film have steady.
The place in question is Middletown, Ohio - one of numerous small towns in a part of Appalachia originally settled by Scots and Irish immigrants who struggled to scrape a living on the poor soil, achieving a brief flush of prosperity as the region was exploited for its metals but gradually declining again afterwards. Few of the characters in Ron Howard's film have steady.
- 1/15/2021
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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