Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia

I should have known this movie would be a problem because one of the producers was Johnny Knoxville of Jackass fame..

The documentary from the Tribeca Film Festival followed the Whites, a truly disturbed and twisted family from Boone County, West Virginia. I found this on Amazon Prime and the major cost was an opportunity cost. I should have been watching the Miami Heat play basketball, or the Marlin's baseball game or gone for a walk.

I am a fan of all things West Virginian I guess and thought a documentary about a dying breed of outcasts, king coal, and mountain dancing couldn't be all bad.

I was uncomfortable from almost the first minute of this movie.  The drug use, language, criminal behavior and just about everything sort of reminded me of the backside of the movie, Deliverance. You can't make this stuff up.

Florida still has a problem with pill mills and doctors that prescribe pain pills in a perverse form of medical tourism and I can imagine the White family making that trip often to finance what food stamps and disability payments can't cover.

Sometime you see stuff with the images blurred in reality shows these days. I'm not sure what would have been left if they edited the language and every thing else in the movie which West Virginia would find neither wild or wonderful.  This makes Buckwild, another West Virginia reality show look like Disney World.

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