ten movies about america

[rone]

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.

Comments

Re: TiX

[drieuxster.livejournal.com]

why take Kentucky Fried Movie over say 'Amazon Women On The Moon' (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092546/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnx0dD0xfGZiPXV8cG49MHxrdz0xfHE9QW1hem9uIFdvbWVuIE9uIFRoZSBNb29ufGZ0PTF8bXg9MjB8bG09NTAwfGNvPTF8aHRtbD0xfG5tPTE_;fc=1;ft=21")?

KFM was merely stoner fodder. whereas AWOTM offered the proper framing within the technical failures of the then newly arrived all night cheap movie tv shows - clearly a far better entre into the moral collapse of american culture in the pre-cable everywhere era.