Only people who actually believe that Midwesterners are mute and moronic could think this movie portrays accurately or with sympathy the folks who live in between our coasts. Rather, the film paints small town America as culturally deprived, small-minded and venal – inhabited by folks “clinging to their guns and religion” as Hillary Clinton so famously put it. It’s hard to picture Johnny Carson or Warren Buffet emerging from such a bleak landscape.
[My only disagreement is that it was the current occupant of the White House who made the unfortunate comment about people unlike himself clinging to guns and religion, not the one who desires to be the next occupant.]