American Hollow Vs. Lalee's Kin

 

American Hollow Vs.Lalee's Kin

Lalee’s Kin/Wallace film explores the painful legacy of slavery and sharecropping in the Delta. 62 year old Lalee Wallace is the life blood of this film. Matriarch to an extended family that moves in and out of her house,Lalee is a woman of contradiction and hope. This documentary follows a Mississippi delta school district and a single dalta family as they struggle against the crippling effects of poverty in the wake of more than one hundred years of salvery. The documentary draws the connection -a vicious cycle- between poverty and the lack of education opportunity for black people living in the Mississippi Delta, over 150 years after the abolition of slavery The school  has the hardship of trying to educate the children of illiterate parents. Lalee takes her films deep into the Mississippi Delta and the intertwined lives of Lalee Wallace her great grandmother struggled with poverty. Her films explore the painful legacy of slavery and sharecropping in the delta.

At the dawn of the 21st century in America, there ‘s no escaping high technology. Not even in Mudlick Hollow, a narrow creek valley in the hills of eastern Kentucky that's home to more than 50 members of the extended Bowling family:A satellite dish, it’s receiving strut and horn bent out of shape, occupies a prominent spot just off the front porch of Lanzo and polly Bowling’s hillside place. Iree, the 68 year old matriarch of the family, has been thinking of buying first VCR. Then Edgar one of the 13 children she and her husband ,Bass, have raised finds himself in the Montgomery County Jail_on a false charge, it turns out, of breaking and entering and she pitches in the money towards his bail. And Samantha Canada one of Iree’s grown daughters, had a very nice television set in the trailer home she shared with husbands Jody and their two little kids until Jody went on one off his period violent rampages and drove what looks like a pair of long handled pliers through the screen. The focus is on people. Americans who are close knit family’s living lives that seem to be light years away from wall street. Both story’s speak about the past and what happens in the family history. Maps out the culture and how family’s manifested. Both acknowledge there difference and explain the pro’s and con’s of each family history. Also, gives a great bio on the worst situation that happened in the past. Both acknowledge education.