Thanks Sonny for this show and Thank you Amy for making a film like this. Not an "Apple" person so haven't seen it yet but just listening to Amy made me remember places like this where I spent summers as a kid, where people were neighborly, and the kids got to be free to play outside without constant parental oversight. Racine WI, Lebanon MO, Galveston TX and the little communities that were there back then. I look forward to seeing your film Amy.
I see this type of change in the Midwest too. Our our up north cabins are year round homes with manicured lawns, fishing boats with high powered motors. My grandparents that lived on a farm would take the grandkids fishing in a row boat with cane fishing poles, or go agate and blueberry hunting. It sounds dull by today’s entertainment standards but we loved it. Part of the problem I see is simply that the population has doubled since I was born. The suburb I grew up in was the edge of Minneapolis, and it had a farm. That farm is long gone and the suburbs have expanded out 20 miles more in all directions. Yes, those are developers making money, but those homes are for people just wanting a place to live. Maybe if I hadn’t grown up with access to wide open spaces I wouldn’t long for them so much.
Really enjoyed the discussion and the film, which for me vindicated Ms Nicholson’s choices to keep out the politics and the heavy handed investigative side. So peaceful and somehow soothing to the soul, before veering into the bittersweet, heartrending conclusion.
The film reminded me of South Padre Island as it was in my youth -- mostly beach/fishing shacks used in the summer and by intrepid teenagers in the winter -- and of the seaside communities in the Tampa Bay area very much like Inlet View. These trailer parks/camp grounds were populated primarily by hard-working, usually low-wage workers and self-employed mechanics, carpenters, etc., who'd saved enough money to buy a small retirement trailer to put on a rented plot in a park owned by someone else. Then, in the early '00s, came the developers who swooped down on the hapless retirees and not only bought out the park from underneath their only homes, but destroyed the mangroves surrounding them to build waterfront mcmansions. Result: natural fisheries gone; natural flood protection gone; housing and flood insurance skyrocketing.
Thanks for the film and thanks for another interesting interview that spurred me to watch a film I would have missed.
What I saw were a lot of obese people smoking cigarettes, and drinking alcohol. It made me wonder if their kids will be as self-destructive and tune-out the rest of the world.
Rented the film and listened to the podcast. My husband and I disagree completely on the approach, the execution, and the message; but we are still talking about it this morning! To me, that is the sign of a film worth watching.
This podcast was essential listening, with Nicholson explaining her motives behind additions and omissions in the film. Maybe it didn't organically osmose (for me) the way she intended, but I don't regret the time I spent in trying to understand what she presented.
Thanks Sonny for this show and Thank you Amy for making a film like this. Not an "Apple" person so haven't seen it yet but just listening to Amy made me remember places like this where I spent summers as a kid, where people were neighborly, and the kids got to be free to play outside without constant parental oversight. Racine WI, Lebanon MO, Galveston TX and the little communities that were there back then. I look forward to seeing your film Amy.
I see this type of change in the Midwest too. Our our up north cabins are year round homes with manicured lawns, fishing boats with high powered motors. My grandparents that lived on a farm would take the grandkids fishing in a row boat with cane fishing poles, or go agate and blueberry hunting. It sounds dull by today’s entertainment standards but we loved it. Part of the problem I see is simply that the population has doubled since I was born. The suburb I grew up in was the edge of Minneapolis, and it had a farm. That farm is long gone and the suburbs have expanded out 20 miles more in all directions. Yes, those are developers making money, but those homes are for people just wanting a place to live. Maybe if I hadn’t grown up with access to wide open spaces I wouldn’t long for them so much.
This was a terrific conversation - thank you!
I need to go rent it on Apple+ now...
Really enjoyed the discussion and the film, which for me vindicated Ms Nicholson’s choices to keep out the politics and the heavy handed investigative side. So peaceful and somehow soothing to the soul, before veering into the bittersweet, heartrending conclusion.
The film reminded me of South Padre Island as it was in my youth -- mostly beach/fishing shacks used in the summer and by intrepid teenagers in the winter -- and of the seaside communities in the Tampa Bay area very much like Inlet View. These trailer parks/camp grounds were populated primarily by hard-working, usually low-wage workers and self-employed mechanics, carpenters, etc., who'd saved enough money to buy a small retirement trailer to put on a rented plot in a park owned by someone else. Then, in the early '00s, came the developers who swooped down on the hapless retirees and not only bought out the park from underneath their only homes, but destroyed the mangroves surrounding them to build waterfront mcmansions. Result: natural fisheries gone; natural flood protection gone; housing and flood insurance skyrocketing.
Thanks for the film and thanks for another interesting interview that spurred me to watch a film I would have missed.
What I saw were a lot of obese people smoking cigarettes, and drinking alcohol. It made me wonder if their kids will be as self-destructive and tune-out the rest of the world.
Rented the film and listened to the podcast. My husband and I disagree completely on the approach, the execution, and the message; but we are still talking about it this morning! To me, that is the sign of a film worth watching.
This podcast was essential listening, with Nicholson explaining her motives behind additions and omissions in the film. Maybe it didn't organically osmose (for me) the way she intended, but I don't regret the time I spent in trying to understand what she presented.
Glad you checked it out!
Amazing there are people who get offended when you don't preach at them.
Pls get this film on Amazon?