Accurate portrayal of undeserving poor in America

I realise that it is often annoying when people bring politics into movies, especially when it is extremely irrelevant. In my view, I think this movie happens to be so accurate that I felt it relevant. But you are free to disagree and not read this if you choose to be offended.



The movie portrays them quite justly, I think. The poor in developed countries are not necessarily poor because they commit crimes or do not work at all. They are poor primarily because they choose to make poor life choices.

Throughout the film, both Amy Adams and her father made terrible choices (I write Norah off as being beyond hope). They faced numerous decisions within the movie, and almost unfailingly they chose the easy way out every time. Whatever it was that was more convenient and comfortable rather than manning up and doing the right thing.

It is one thing if you are rich. Rich people can afford to act out and indulge in excessive luxuries in terms of decision making, because they have the resources to pay for either the cost of said decisions or the consequences stemming from them.

But despite the fact that Amy Adams was so poor, she still constantly chose to make expensive life choices. So, I think it is an accurate portrayal. Because it didn’t excessively demonise her, but it did show how she was almost solely responsible for her poverty.