In a review of recent films about rural areas, Mike Hale, who grew up farming "on a quarter-section" in rural Iowa, evocatively remembers the "anomie and a sense of endlessly declining fortunes" that characterized life there.
So many times we stout-hearted, forward-looking folk rhapsodize about rural life. We don't know or we don't remember that people leave for better opportunities not only monetarily, but also mentally.
Read his review NYTimes, Aug5, p.C1.
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