This movie is certainly entertaining as much as it can be disturbing. It reflects the life of a trailer-park trash couple, and their everyday troubles with their marriage, the cumbersome handling of a mother addicted to gambling, a sleazy trailer-park owner and a miserable abusive wino ex-husband.
As a middle class person, it is sometimes difficult for me to understand the characters' behavioral patterns, but at the same time I can as easily be understand them by looking at the situation they find themselves in. The quirkiness in their personalities can be traced to the hopelessness that surrounds them.
The movie gives a good perspective of how small life can be, but how it is still the same fundamental issues that matter the most. To take the pain, you need the pleasure, and when life is poor, the pleasures are cheap. In this case, the ultimate pleasure is an all-you-can-eat barbecue, and happiness can be found in your immediate surroundings if you really look for it and try hard to find it. The movie is quite slow in its story telling pace, but that slow pace also contributes to the atmosphere.
