"[M]oviemakers have mapped a secular destiny for America that doesn't bode well for its citizens."

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From the article:

Now: Oscar contenders “August Osage County” and “Nebraska” both concern the kind of dysfunctional families one might find inhabiting a Tennessee Williams play, only amped with enough invective exclamation to cause a sailor’s ears to bleed.

My comment: My wife and I found the film touching. A son deals with his aging Father’s dementia. Because I have an aging Mother (now 94) the movie resonated with me. The portrayed son, Will Forte, is a moral young man who deeply loves his Father. About the mental illness angle: In the film the Father thinks he has won $ 1,000,000 (it’s a Publisher’s Clearing House kind of letter). My mother has as decimal shift issue. She will say something is 14¢ when it is $ 14.00. (She really got her nursing home folk upset when she said she only paid 14¢ for her noon main meal!) Sometimes it shifts the other way. She wanted to give my brother $ 10,000. When it was actually paying his $ 100 hotel room when he visited her. One sibling was angry because of Mother’s intended largesse to another sibling. Other sibling said he did not ask for $ 10,000. And it was over a $ 100 gift to pay for his hotel room!

About some of the crude talk in Nebraska. My wife’s view: just like visiting family in Wisconsin

[Jim]

About some of the crude talk in Nebraska. My wife’s view: just like visiting family in Wisconsin

There can be some pretty crude talk here in Wisconsin!