Cusp

Whoa! I cant believe the literal town i grew up in is featured in this! This is good ole' Copperas Cove, TX where there's nothing but fast food joints, pawn shops, and dollar store's. I'm a bit older and was doing the same exact thing's in the late 90s- 2000s. Nothing to do but get as drunk and high as possible to drown your misery.

With an average IQ hovering right around room temperature everyone featured in this documentary make tree stumps seem erudite. Luckily these folks don't represent average America. Among the rural lower class the filmmakers have found a pocket of people from a Jerry Springer-like "Bizarro World."

Like rabbits these people are destined to reproduce early and often and thus guarantee there will be plenty of fodder for future trash TV shows, documentaries like this and to keep welfare rolls stocked. These are the kind of people who keep the American meth industry afloat.

This documentary offers nothing in the way of solutions nor does it explore the causes. Thinking people will instantly recognize that education is the way out of living hells such as this. Our "stars" in this movie bask in ignorance and apathy.

All that said it can be diverting to watch our nation's underbelly writhe and struggle for 90 minutes a slice.

You really don't care what happens to these girls who have no respect for themselves and no hope for a better life. The result is depressing without being interesting. A documentary about anthills would be more involving.

These girls reminded me of my besties back in the day. I don't get all the low ratings, it was interesting and subtle with some beautiful and stark back drops. Honest and doesn't really "pick a side". We are all awkward, and want to be loved/accepted, and vain, and funny, and wild... especially as teens. I really enjoyed it. And I definitely fell in love with every single character. Give it more than 20 mins. It grows on you.

Female version of "Rich HIll"- same identical format, teen drama backed by intriguing landscapes. Just a rehash- so watch both and compare. 10 years later, more convincing evidence that this generation of poverty will never rise. 3 protagonists with immature parents living in reduced circumstances, however in Rich Hill one characters had enough pluck to seek a way out of his situation. Here there is such lassitude, such a sense of "life is what happens to you," rather than electing any control over the circumstances and the resignation is truly palpable. Just timely due to the current judicial hatred of women and girls, and Texas has that identifier solidified.