"I love you, you idiot"
And I felt that.
Slow burn southern gothic snapshots of the evil that men do.
Flitting between decades in and around Donald Ray Pollock's fictional town Knockemstiff, we spend time with a host of characters caught in cycles of violence, abuse and trauma. The overriding question this film asks us is "At what point is violence justified?", and it holds no punches (literally) in taking us to the razors edge of empathy, ire and vindication.
We see many justifications from the characters in this…