Review of Hillbilly Elegy (2020) by Chronicrenegade — 30 Nov 2020
Dopesick (Beth Macy) is what you need to read/watch instead, and the movie that should have been made in place of this engineered narrative that Appalachians are all lazy hillbillies. The movie, and by proxy the book, entirely miss the point of systemic and generational poverty.
The movie can be summed up in one ignorant statement: "poor people are poor because they're lazy." It's a bootstrap narrative, and a terrible one at that. The book even contains a passage where the author makes the claim he was held down and forced to drink sparkling water by socialites at a restaurant.
Please.
This review of Hillbilly Elegy (2020) was written by Chronicrenegade on 30 November 2020.
Hillbilly Elegy has generally received positive reviews.
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