by Flack » Wed Aug 24, 2011 2:19 pm
Last night I watched "The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia". I doubt there's anything I could write about this film that would do it justice, so here's a brief summary.
Donald Ray "D. Ray" White and Bertie May White had 13 kids. Donald was known for two things: his unique style of tap dancing/clogging, and somehow getting all his kids on disability. Of the 13 kids, about half don't appear in the film. The half that do appear inbred, stoned, and perhaps mentally damaged. Their kids, for the most part, seem even more out of control.
For a year, a documentary crew followed the White clan around West Virginia, and we get to see the Whites do what it is the Whites do. They dance, they fight, they do coke and smoke weed, they sell drugs, they get their kids taken away by the state, one goes to rehab, one goes to prison, one gets out of prison ... that's about it.
Local law enforcement and judges are interviewed and talk about how the Whites are a pain in their butts, but that they always seem to have money so there's nothing they can do.
Basically every person in this movie has a speech impediment, and since with Netflix streaming there's no subtitles, I missed about half the dialogue. Add the fact that every White has a nickname, and basically what you have is a confusing 90-minute look at ... well, the Whites.
Last night I watched "The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia". I doubt there's anything I could write about this film that would do it justice, so here's a brief summary.
Donald Ray "D. Ray" White and Bertie May White had 13 kids. Donald was known for two things: his unique style of tap dancing/clogging, and somehow getting all his kids on disability. Of the 13 kids, about half don't appear in the film. The half that do appear inbred, stoned, and perhaps mentally damaged. Their kids, for the most part, seem even more out of control.
For a year, a documentary crew followed the White clan around West Virginia, and we get to see the Whites do what it is the Whites do. They dance, they fight, they do coke and smoke weed, they sell drugs, they get their kids taken away by the state, one goes to rehab, one goes to prison, one gets out of prison ... that's about it.
Local law enforcement and judges are interviewed and talk about how the Whites are a pain in their butts, but that they always seem to have money so there's nothing they can do.
Basically every person in this movie has a speech impediment, and since with Netflix streaming there's no subtitles, I missed about half the dialogue. Add the fact that every White has a nickname, and basically what you have is a confusing 90-minute look at ... well, the Whites.