Wisconsin Death Trip

http://www.wisconsindeathtrip.com/

Anyone seen the movie, read the book, or heard of it?

I just got a hold of both the book and movie, started to this morning.

Going to watch the film after

So if you have seen, read or whatever reason you got, lemme know what you think of it.

Ive heard of nothing but good things, so im anxious to see whats up.

I'm gonna look for this the next time I'm at the library. It looks really interesting.

What's the plot and theme?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0210389/


Wisconsin Death Trip is an intimate, shocking and sometimes hilarious account of the disasters that befell one small town in Wisconsin during the final decade of the 19th century. The film is inspired by Michael Lesy's book of the same name which was first published in 1973. Lesy discovered a striking archive of black and white photographs in the town of Black River Falls dating from the 1890s and married a selection of these images to extracts from the town's newspaper from the same decade. The effect was surprising and disturbing. The town of Black River Falls seems gripped by some peculiar malaise and the weekly news is dominated by bizarre tales of madness, eccentricity and violence amongst the local population. Suicide and murder are commonplace. People in the town are haunted by ghosts, possessed by devils and terrorized by teenage outlaws and arsonists. Like the book, the film is constructed entirely from authentic news reports from the Black River Falls' newspaper with occasional excerpts from the records of the nearby Mendota Asylum for the Insane. The film also makes use of the haunting black and white photographs taken by the resident portrait photographer of Black River Falls at the end of the 19th century. Contemporary color documentary footage of the town today is also included at the end of each section of the film that take place over the course of four seasons. Written by MAR

Started, and pissed and i wont be able to finish it for a day or so.

Work is lame, but ill get to it asap, and let you know.

So far, so good tho