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Great Film overall

Yo, there's no way for me to review this film without saying, take your *insert ethnicity + "ass" here* to see this film,like now. You have to see it in order to know what you're really messing with.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

This small independent film is a rare gem especially if you like a good southern American Gothic tale. Briar Patch or "Plain Dirty" as it is alternately titled is a rich atmospheric blend of Flannery O'Connor, Faulkner, and Tennessee Williams all thrown into the gumbo pot.One major strength of this film is that avoids the usual redneck clichés. These characters are very real each complete with their own complex pathos transcending their life's conditions whether comfortably rich or dirt poor.Every performance is spot on. The directing and cinematography are lavish and the plot keeps you riveted to the end. Dominique Swain as Inez is by far the star of the film. Her salty Mother Earth mesmerizing charm expands the typical love triangle to a quadrangle. She has two men literally worshiping at her feet while her husband has her literally chained to the bed. Throughout the whole film she becomes progressively more tattered, raged and dirty yet all the while intoxicating and beautiful. The ending is a surprise complete with a wonderful ironic twist well worth the wait.

It seems this film was created with a certain assumption, and demographic in mind. As a person who has moved to the area (temporarily) I can only say- watch "I Walk the Line" instead.This film is a fraud. Producers have no story, so create a ragamuffin who is abused. I do like Dominique Swain, but this film is awful. No performance could transcend the dearth of material. I am only being honest. If you are really interested in decent acting, rural settings, and the theme of unrequited love, there are so many more choices.Seriously, if cinema has fallen this low that American audiences are expected to sympathize with a trashy, undeveloped and practically non-existent theme; then we may as well never pay money to see any drama offered to the American public. This is unadulterated trash, and any audience deserves better. One star for Swain.

Maybe it's because I came into this film with no idea what to expect, because I saw it "clean", without anybody's opinions to sway me one way or another, but my overall reaction was of very, very pleasant surprise. Delight, even. Well, it is always a delight to discover hidden treasure and this is no exception.With this subject matter it could well have gone otherwise. But director Zev Berman was clearly in charge, deftly cutting a path through the swamp and deep into the psyches of his edgy, creepy and nonetheless poignant cast of characters. Yes, they are well-known, these backwoods types, but the acting and especially the fine, teasing character of Flowers as he unveiled the scheming intelligence and grand purpose behind his initial apparent "slowness", kept them from being clichéd.Indeed, Arie Verveen's performance alone was worth the price of admission. But all of the actors' emotional commitment to their roles was palpable. The scene in which Edgar erupts in rage at his pathetic life and takes it out on Inez was particularly hard to watch, but because of that extremely effective. Less intense, but equally compelling were the tension and contrast between Inez' life with Edgar and her dream life in town.The setting was atmospheric in that wonderfully sordid and creepy Southern Gothic kind of way. At the same time the cinematography brought a dark, elegant clarity to the scenery, and the intelligent score enhanced the emotional content without intruding on the experience.Overall, as I said at the outset, this film dances a fine line that could have ended in the land of stereotype and unintentionally laughable characterizations. But the line held, and the fact that it was so fine made the experience all the more clever, edgy and provocative. There is a smart, discerning eye and a sure hand at work here, and I for one look forward to Zev Berman's next opus.

My heavens, why such a low star score!! This was a very well done movie in all aspects of theater, given the storyline plot is one commonly hackneyed. This movie isn't in the Cat On A Hot Tin Roof notch, but it sure did play a close second in the intensity department! This wasn't of the style of Billy Bob Thornton in Chrystal or Redford in Gatsby, but you got the hillbilly gal semi-tushing her way into the wishful richer world and get out of her backwoods living. The direction, casting, styles and acting were all topnotch and keeps you anticipating more unto the very end. I do get weary of movies using cornfields as inexpensive scenes in these types (and others) of movies (and it was a little whacked to see a Kansas type cornfield not far from a swamp), but it fit well in this movie for the short use they made of it with Officer Avon and Flowers characters ... it was ideal for that particular important scene and it set a motif for next scenes very well. Photography was done very well with good angles, and for once! a decent background music score. I do get weary of dueling banjos even though I really like it, but it wouldn't be suitable to have an association of Deliverance here. It was just all very well put together and the movie just flows.Too many movies have come across with backwood hicks being stupid or racists and other such stereotyping. This movie put more meat into the character developments with serious and calculated depth. Even tho the Inez character obviously had a hard streak about her, her manipulations were upfront and honest, with rational reasoning to stomp her steps through the movie. You can't help but like, admire and pity her and yet be accompanied by dismay (and minor frustration, but not annoyingly so) of her intellectual limitations to step out of her bad situation with a better solution. However, that doesn't happen in life and this movie albeit intense, was a refreshing straying from stereotyping of a battered and abused woman. I liken this movie to the level of the movie Tim, with Mel Gibson, whereby the characters are portrayed with specific complex and simplistic limitations/boundaries giving the audience the decision of forming their own separate opinion(s) of each characterization instead of the director "telling" you this-or-that is what you should be thinking.Would I watch this movie again? I probably wouldn't rent it again, but would watch it again, but would need to be mentally geared for another viewing. This was a rather deep movie to take the first time around, and is probably why others gave it a lower score. I would recommend watching it, but would say if you're more into less mental type movies, this would not be your cup of tea.