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Hillbilly Elegyis a movie thats best consumed in pieces, via YouTube highlights or awards reels.
Theres just no making sense of it as a whole.
Theres a sequence in which law student J.D.
It embodies prestige as a genre that has nothing to do with quality or thematic importance.
Its based on real events.
The film, coming out in late 2020, feels marked by mild embarrassment about buying into that narrative.
Bev struggles with substance abuse and cycles through lovers and husbands.
She has what appear to be undiagnosed mental health issues, but theyre never acknowledged as such.
