White Lightnin'

Stay off the lighter fluid

Jesco White is a real person made famous by the 1991 documentary the dancing outlaw. The main character is inspired by Jesco, an eccentric tap dancing, lighter fluid sniffing hillbilly - but this film prompty takes a massive departure from reality to religious revenge fantasy.

Carrie Fisher plays his wife and the way they meet in the film is actually true, well according to Jesco, he was hitchhiking and planning to steal the car but when Norma Jean stops to pick him up he falls instantly in love with her and even though she's a lot older than him they marry.

Told mostly in black and white with voice over, this doesn't feel authentic. The Hasil Adkins soundtrack is cool but Elvis Presley would be more fitting.

NO - gothic stereotype

Visioneers

fuck you work.

George Washington has a windowless office job working for the Jeffers corporation. He lives with his self help obsessed wife and a son they never see.

An epidemic of exploding is putting people on edge, no one knows why this is happening but having dreams is one of the symptoms and George is starting to have visions of his namesake. His life coach tries to get him back on track but after he also explodes, George becomes increasingly disillusioned.

This first film by Jared Drake, is not set in our world - there are bizarre toys, neck implants, handsign greetings and a different pronunciation of the word "chaos" but the concerns are familiar. It's a unique satire on work and family life, questioning how we think we should be living compared to how we actually want to live.

YES - brazil with a happy ending