north georgia rednecks

”[Flannery] O’Connor is important to the way this movie [The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada] is constructed. What you do is you consider some so-called religious thinking without the didacticism of the classical approach. You look for the allegorical intentions of what we’re taught in the Bible, and then find some way to have it revealed or expressed by common experience. You’ll find this happening over and over again in O’Connor, who was a rather classical Catholic thinker who wrote about nothing but backwoods north Georgia rednecks.”

- Tommy Lee Jones

One Response to “north georgia rednecks”

1. richard says:

   19 April, 2009 at 3:42

   It has been some time since I stopped by for a visit. So I spent some time this morning catching up. All good things your way.