Andrea Arnold could've saved on airfare and car rentals.

Essentially the backstory on American Honey is another foreigner -- whose vision of America is, in her own words at Cannes, "a mix of the America I grew up with – which I mostly saw though Hollywood; my romanticised idea of it – and the contemporary America I saw when I did my trips" -- going for a few car drives through Tiny Town, U.S.A., "discovering" only what she's already EXPECTING to find, and presuming that it can somehow translate into some Big Important Metaphor for the country as a whole and millennials in particular, even though her characters represent the fringiest of fringe-dwellers whose willfully-aimless, CHOSEN way of life says very little about the American dream or its perceived dissolution. She could've just stayed home and read the Gawker article on country rap douchebag Mikel Knight and the endless stream of uneducated suckers, losers and trailer trash in his sleazy CD van distribution "network", inserted a couple of "I gotta find myself" female characters into the mixture (because sweaty bikinis!), and come up with virtually the same movie. On the positive, she's clearly advocating for socialized health care if her interviews about the film are anything to go on -- whether the film directly addresses it or not -- so that'll certainly get the usual right-wing suspects up in arms.