Do you think that this movie made Minnesota look like a wasteland and that are the men are a$$hole. I do not think they made a good interpretation of men and the state. What do you think ? (I know this has probably been posted already, and please keep it clean)
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At times it made us look like bumpkins. Its like most of the actors went out of there way to not comb or wash their hair.
shareA little, but you have remember that is really does look like that in the fall and winter up in the iron range! People said the same thing when Fargo was being filmed here, but even then...it really does look like that in the winter here!
shareAnyone who has visited Northern Minnesota will know that "North Country" made it look cleaner and more sophisticated than it is. Try reading one of the local newspapers--www.virginiamn.com--for a few days and you'll get a fine "feel" for the area.
The last resort of one who cannot think is to argue that another cannot feel.
i figured the movie exaggerated some MN stereotypes for effects. BUT, coming from Georgia, i totally know how it is to have your home state misrepresented.
Deliverance, anyone...?
It didn't seem too far from the truth to me. The scenery seemed about right, actually less dirty than I'd imagine. And it showed that most (but not all) the men in that MINE were a$$es -- not mot of the men in the whole STATE. I'd like to hear how an Iron Ranger felt about it though. I'm from the Twin Cities and know the Iron Range is a whole different ballgame.
shareIt isn't presented as a representation of the state. Also, since it's the state where women stood up for themselves and the legal system upheld their end, if anything it suggests that it's a good state. Why is everyone so anxious to find negative messages hidden in this film. It's not like that at all.
"He married her six weeks after the... previous sequence."
I thought this was a pretty accurate representation of MN. I grew up on the Iron Range and the people are pretty mean. Female members of my family worked in the mines and they felt the hostility from their male coworkers.....this was about 10 years after the sexual harassment lawsuit so they didn't experience the sexual harassment as the women in 'North Country' did.
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