What is this film about? I was asking myself this through the first half. It's about an angry alcoholic father with a dead wife and two sons. One son is relatively normal and the other is junkie. There's some conflict there. It's also about conflict between hillfolk and them fancy people that live in houses. That's about it. Few major problems with this are the frequent and confusing use of cut scenes. It takes a while to determine what is past and present which takes away from the story. There's some well written monologues but in they get cutup. Another problem is too much time, possible equal amount of time is spent on the sub-plot of the junkie son and his lady friend. And then there's pacing, boy it is slow and makes this a hard watch. As mentioned some of the writing is good, acting and production are fine, and the last fifth of the film picks up to close with a satisfying ending, but it's not worth the wait.
Review of Burning Kentucky
