art from MAD Comic by Jack Davis

MOVIE:  THE MOUNTAIN MINOR

Surfing for an interesting movie to watch we stumbled across THE MOUNTAIN MINOR.It is about the dirt-poor mountain folk of Kentucky and their love for Bluegrass music.  I think down to earth real down-to-earth people who knew nothing of acting did the acting.  That made it even more authentic.  I In the movie, all people who had relationships friendship or marriage, they were always putting the other down, in a joking unprovoked  joking style – like real people in the south do if they care for someone. Through the natural genealogy of life people died, but like a Greek play, nobody died in front of the audience.  Their death were announced by showing  their tombstone with the dates chiseled in.  

There is a lot of Bluegrass jams and Bluegrass as lonely wails, but it is all good and non-pretentious.   Good movie!