ten movies about america

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dr_strych9 lists 10 films he'd use to explain America.  Here's mine:

• The Blues Brothers
• Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
• Network
• The Apostle
• Nobody's Fool
• Bob Roberts
• Fargo
• The Rookie
• X
• Deliverance

Nota bene: i haven't seen "The Rookie" or "Deliverance", but i'm acquainted enough with the stories that i'm confident about their appearance here.

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hmmm

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I'd include Citizen Kane for the whole self-made man/rise and fall story and instead of Deliverance, Gone with the wind says a lot more about the myth of The South than a suspense film about murderous hillbillies.

Actually, come to think of it, Deliverence and The Evil Dead are actually the same film: travel to the woods for a short trip, something evil in the woods gets you. Deliverance has the squeal like a pig rape scene, Evil dead has the infamous "tree rape" scene. Although I guess there's no cover-up aftermath in Evil Dead.