I grew up several dozen mile south of this stories location. Can’t comment on the movie but the author is correct on many points about how southerner natives use the language.
My dad was fond of saying:
Theres them you love
Theres them you hate
And then theres them that just needs killen
LOL! I’d never heard of this film, but it looks like fun and now I’ve got to see it.
District Attorney Danny Buck ran into a problem—he couldn’t scare up a single juror in Panola County who was willing to put Bernie behind bars.
Sounds like a complete fabrication. That is not the way grand juries and trials work in Texas.
First, they have a Grand Jury to determine if there is sufficient evidence of a crime being committed. That is standard procedure in all Texas homicides.
Then, after a Grand Jury decides to indict, the suspect can plead or require a jury trial.
So, there had to be a Grand Jury indictment long before a jury trial ever was convened.
The movie just sounds like a hit piece on the South and Texas, at least from this review.
Well, according to the authorette the movie is racist cause of slavery or somerhin’.
That girl isn’t old enough to speak about real Southerners. Her generation isn’t really Southern, from my experience. They are way more cosmopolitan than my South was.
There is a show on IDTV about this. I watched it. It’s amazing that real crime drama is sometimes crazier than anything a fiction writer could come up with.
One of Jack Black’s best roles and an enjoyable movie despite the topic. In addition to the movie, the case was shown on one of the reality crime shows. Seems the victim really was disliked that much.
A colorful review, I agree, but the New York is strong in this ex-resident of Louisiana.
Her argument is, basically, (white) Bernie’s murder of (white) Marjorie was only acceptable to his (white) neighbors because, well, slavery.
Not because Marjorie deserved it.