I've been to Dallas/ Ft. Worth and I've only seen pictures of Houston, Austin, and San Antonio. This movie portrays west Texas as a depressing hellhole, the southern equivalent of Detroit.
So is it really like this?
Well, it is a lot of wide open spaces with the occassional small town. When oil prices are high, there's a lot of activity, but when it's low, people either move because there are no jobs or they stay and try to eak out some kind of living. And when they get bored, they do meth (tweakers) or other drugs or alcohol. I certainly wouldn't live there and I'm a native Texan. I'm a city girl though.
shareI'd love to make a road trip through those small towns :)
shareI enjoyed magnificent landscapes. Especially I found a place where the road turns 270 degrees and overlooks Alamogordo Valley. But it is in New Mexico, not Texas. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llano_Estacado#/media/File:Northwest_Escarpment_Llano_Estacado_2003.jpg And there is Google maps coordinates: 34.909265,-104.071917 It is NM-156 road and it is improved since Google maps images were taken.
shareMost rural areas are very depressing.
The ranch in a few years will be nicer than anything 99% of Americans have ever lived in.
Yes eastern New Mexico/west Texas is really like that.
Goddamit! Things ain't workin' out for me today!
Being a native from eastern New Mexico, and currently living in west Texas, around the towns where the movie takes place, I can attest that this movie hits the nail on the head in terms of what this area is like, from the hard financial situations, to the old cowboys who hang out in the local diner and will talk to anyone, to the "tough and cool" guys who ride around with their loud music and try to pick a fight with you if you even make eye contact with them. I could only laugh at some scenes because of how accurately they depicted the area, and it's people.
shareI can attest that this movie hits the nail on the head in terms of what this area is like, from the hard financial situations, to the old cowboys who hang out in the local diner and will talk to anyone, to the "tough and cool" guys who ride around with their loud music and try to pick a fight with you if you even make eye contact with them.
He also described rural Canada up here as well. There is a big difference between urban and rural life and people in North America. I had yet to visit a rural area that is not poor, depressed and addiction ridden.
Can this really be the end..to be stuck inside of mobile
with the Memphis blues again.
Uh no he didn't describe all of Texas. west Texas is nothing like the rest of Texas.
shareGet out of the city limits once in a while. Can't compare big cities with vast rural spaces. Different standards. Some of those people have no desire to live packed like sardines in cities with their own set of problems
shareAlthough I have never quite lived in the region, I love the endless space and sky—the ability to seemingly see to eternity—that one encounters on the Great Plains, especially once one reaches the western parts of the eastern-most Great Plains states (Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and all the way up). I find the environment enthralling and liberating.
That said, for those who live there, the experience could be disorienting for some—there are stories about people, especially in the frontier days, who would eventually "walk the tracks." In other words, they would commit suicide on the railways, allowing oncoming trains to run them over. Then one may need to contend with tornadoes, weather extremes, and grasshopper storms. In addition to the spatial disorientation and isolation that some may suffer from, fickle economic conditions and a lack of cultural opportunities could also create a depressing effect.
maybe if you stop believe in the media and Obama's lies that the economy is so peachy and get out of you house once a while you would see the truth.... for most areas of America there hasn't been a recovery, the people that have prospered is the globalists who are racking in huge profits by shipping jobs across seas and opening factories over seas now, the country is really hurting, but you got you blinders on and you believe all the BS from Obama.
maybe if you stop believe in the media and Obama's lies that the economy is so peachy and get out of you house once a while you would see the truth.... for most areas of America there hasn't been a recovery, the people that have prospered is the globalists who are racking in huge profits by shipping jobs across seas and opening factories over seas now, the country is really hurting, but you got you blinders on and you believe all the BS from Obama.
HA! Can't speak for west texas, but this is hardly the most depressing portrayal of modern day USA. Watch Winter's Bone, or Joe.
share