Hale County This Morning, This Evening

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🎙️ EPISODE 216: 12.23.19 *Review starts @ ~ 10:10 This is the very definition of a "fly-on-the-wall/slice of life" doc. It's probably not your insects or your pizza, though. It feels like photography come to life. It is a pure artistic statement in that arena, no question. Whether or not these pictures are also telling a compelling story isn't quite as clear. Five minutes of a toddler going back and forth don't make sense until you think about it in the context of what happens to that toddler's infant sibling later on. Intermittently, we are interrupted by black title cards with white text, the most striking of which reads: "What happens when all the cotton is picked?" That this isn't so much of a question, perhaps, is maybe what the story is all about. In the 1990 power ballad by Extreme, "More Than Words," Gary Cherone sings, "More than words is all you have to do to make it real." You don't need to speak to tell a story. You don't have to do anything at all. As Steven Tyler of Aerosmith once sang, "Just Press Play" (on the camera).

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⫷ EPISODE 216A - (YOU ARE HERE) - EPISODE 217A ⫸

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