The Empire Eats Its Own | Philip A. Farruggio
Philip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust
May 10, 2014
Just watched Alexander Paynes new film Nebraska, written by Bob Nelson and starring Bruce Dern and Will Forte. I dont really know what the writer and director had in mind, but the story is interesting and to me a bit conflicting.
In this bleak portrait of Americas 21stcentury serfs, Dern plays an alcoholic senior citizen who zones out more than in. He mistakenly believes that he has won a $1 million magazine sweepstakes prize, and wants to go to Lincoln Nebraska to redeem it.
His son, caught in a dead-end retail sales clerk job, knowing (as does his mother and brother) that the million-dollar prize award is bogus, decides to take off from work to drive his father. The son knows that his dad is incapable of going alone without putting himself in harms way.
We learn early on how Dern was never a good father to his sons, or a good husband, as he was "married to booze" all his adult life. As for his younger son, Freudian theory dictates that the more an immature child is rejected by a parent, the more he or she seeks out their love.
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