Nauseating. Maybe your reason to watch this movie is hillbilly lifestyles are interesting to watch. But to stomach the pretentious European director's style is a task. If you want to celebrate obese junkies engaging in real sex, pregnant strippers dancing after shooting dope, and racist gun nuts practicing maneuvers, it might be a diversion. Yet if you seek more than icky entertainment, there ain't no insights here. It's gutter anthropology/pornography which belches a sloppy, unclean carnival on screen as a dare to the viewer: Can you take it? Can you see beyond all the brain damage and gross sex and discharge, and still believe there's hope or meaning. The director is too busy fellating his own ideas, and allowing seductive camera-work to make squalor aesthetic.The movie's goal is to shock, then smear the viewer's faces with bullshit platitudes. Watch "The Wild & Wonderful Whites of West Virginia" instead.
Review of The Other Side
