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American Honey is everything but sweet

American Honey, directed by Andrea Arnold, shines like the backlit summer-scape of your mind. Its visceral and concrete insight into the underbelly of the American dream submerges the viewer. The long shots of sunrises and sunsets over the rolling American landscape, and flashy scenes of grey highway somehow manage to both lull and unsettle. Dumpster diving with her two young siblings, the protagonist, Star (Sasha Lane), stands in the rubble of discarded meats and vegetables, and watches a white van pull into the Kmart parking lot. Clearly captivated by the rat-tail wearing crust-punk Jake (Shia Labeouf) and his gang of…

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