My Days in Texas » massena https://www.batterman.org/susan (More days than originally anticipated) Sat, 14 Sep 2013 17:13:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 Frozen River https://www.batterman.org/susan/2008/09/07/frozen-river/ https://www.batterman.org/susan/2008/09/07/frozen-river/#comments Sun, 07 Sep 2008 19:09:51 +0000 http://www.batterman.org/susan/2008/09/07/frozen-river/ Last night we went to see a movie Ed had picked out based on reviews: Frozen River. I didn’t have time on Friday to read the link to the review he sent me, so I just caught that it was a drama and had won the Sundance Grand Jury Prize for dramatic film, and something about a frozen river. I was surprised, then, to learn in the opening scenes of the movie that it was set in Massena, NY. It was, in fact, filmed in Plattsburgh, not Massena, although there were shots of some familiar signs from the actual town, and since the story was dependent on the proximity of the reservation to town, they really did make it seem like the real Massena.

It was a very good movie, but not a happy one in any way. A sad story, really well acted. After we got home I did a little googling about the subject matter (smuggling), and found this Time article from 1999. I would like to learn more about this, as it’s something I’ve wondered about with all the attention paid to the Mexico border.

I do recommend seeing the movie when it comes out on DVD, but not if you’re already depressed. And yes, it passes the Bechdel Rule.

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