Lone Star

This movie was recommended to me by one of my film profs last fall as an example of postmodern cultural identity. He admitted to not really knowing much about postmodernism. Fair enough, I mean come on, who really does? The dubious postmodernism of the film aside, it is definitely comparable to a film like Spike Lee’s Do The Right Thing, in that it presents the complexities of an American social reality (in this case a Texan, rather than Brooklyn), particularly by raising the slippery question of who is Texan and why.
The film borders on the allegorical as it attempts to answer the question with characters representing historical cultural groups of the area. Yet the further the film explores the history of its characters, the more apparent the complexity of the issue is.
What is most surprising about the film (formally, at least), is the sparsity of landscape shots that one usually expects from Westerns. Then again, Lone Star isn’t your typical cowboy movie.

Good - because it includes tasteful incest.

Directed by John Sayles