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
