Mike Geno

My first impression was similar to those with lower ratings here, which I read quite a few. However I give credit to this film for being much more thoughtful and thought-provoking than typical bigger budget films. It's poetic how one sees a small community can know everyone and everyone's business yet people still feel immensely lonely. As intelligent characters want more from their small town life and simpler minds are content and how that can clash. How uninspired thinkers get depressed and the rest find their happiness in the mundane. This film, I suspect, is more about humanity, it's about how polarized our world seems to be getting. Especially when you consider the film demonstrates, (the most interesting point for me) that you can only push people, usually known as "nice" and generally gentle pacifists, so far before they break.