This is a look at Creede Colorado, a former mining town that was revitalized when it started a theater in 1966. The trouble was that the while the town began to thrive the theater brought in ideas that challenged their entrenched ideas.
This is a nice portrait of a small town in America and the battles that are being fought everywhere. As the film makes clear it’s not that everyone isn’t nice, its more that many people are set in their ways and not willing to move.
What makes the film work is that the filmmakers don’t just let things blindly play out. We get a sense of the people and the town and where everyone is coming from. We don’t get hot button sound bites but the reasoning for it. For example the sheriff explains why he is in favor of someone in the school be allowed to carry a gun- because if something happens and because the area they are responsible for is so large it might be 20 minutes or more before an officer can arrive. Other issues are less solidly supported, but at the same time we do get a reason as to why people feel as they do.
I liked this film a great deal. It goes a long way into getting us to a starting place where we can close the national divide.
Recommended.
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