{"id":25529,"date":"2020-01-10T12:42:48","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T17:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/?p=25529"},"modified":"2019-12-28T21:54:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-29T02:54:00","slug":"movie-american-woman-the-english-pay-attention-to-our-white-working-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/10\/movie-american-woman-the-english-pay-attention-to-our-white-working-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Movie: American Woman (the English pay attention to our white working class)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Since the California elites who control our film industry won&#8217;t pay attention to the American heterosexual cisgender working class, it has fallen to the English (Ridley Scott and his son Jake) to make <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Woman_(2018_film)\">American Woman<\/a><\/em> (streaming on HBO).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What does a working class white grandmother at age 31 look like? <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sienna_Miller\">Sienna Miller<\/a>, the daughter of a banker and a model. She loves cigarettes, sex with married guys, and alcohol. This carefree existence is interrupted when her teenage daughter disappears and she is left to care for her toddler grandson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don&#8217;t think it spoils the mystery of the movie to say that the main plot, which transpires over more than a decade, is that the American woman has to learn to stop depending in any way on the American white man (there are a couple of good black guys, one of whom happens to be gay). The choices in white men are (1) the abusive, (2) the unfaithful, and (3) the murderous. Grandma has to grow up, stop enjoying the Tinder lifestyle, get an education, and get a job that pays enough that she doesn&#8217;t need to trade sex for financial support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The movie is worth watching for some good performances, but I wonder about the accuracy. Is the American working class primarily made up of slender good-looking people with perfect skin?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Readers: Have you seen this movie? What did you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the California elites who control our film industry won&#8217;t pay attention to the American heterosexual cisgender working class, it has fallen to the English (Ridley Scott and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-culture-movies"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Movie: American Woman (the English pay attention to our white working class) - 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