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Originally Posted by Vermilion Villager
I did watch it. Maybe one of the few of us who actually did.
The movie was advertised as a documentary. Spoiler alert..It's not.
3 main characters.
Character one is a guy in late 70's who is living in his van. His goal is to find a rich widow. Unfortunatly all of them easily see thru is ruse and at the end of this, surprise....he's still living in his van.
Character two centered around a couple also in their 70's. She is what I would call a normal Villager. However she is married to basically a drug addict. Most of their story centers around his drug problems and his pending court date on drug charges.
Character three is a nice shy woman who is widowed. Her story centers around her struggles to socialize in a community where most are married there are many more single women than men.
So 150,000 Villagers....and somehow this is a snapshot of life here?!?!? To be honest, other than the widow I've never met any characters like what was portrayed in this...whatever it was. Maybe I need to get out more!  |
I saw the movie...thought it was interesting. To me... the most real life one was the widow...I could only imagine this situation is common here. There's a big difference, I'd imagine, in losing your spouse and then heading to TV to "start again" and living here as a couple and losing a spouse. She was so lonely, it was so hard for her to feel accepted, made my heart hurt...she was very similar to my neighbor.
The guy in the van...yes, I agree there are probably allot of "this fellow" out there...in fact, I swear I saw him picking up a woman last week at City Fire..very uncomfortable to witness...from meeting to tongues down the throat within 2 hours....all I could think of was covid.
Then the druggy...let's face it we all know him...maybe not to that degree....but the sports injuries leading to a few too many pain killers...or else my other neighbor that smokes nonstop, has COPD, throws back his meds of 10 pills in one swallow and runs to happy hour literally 1hr after his last hospital release.
So maybe their stories are not exactly the same....but its out there.