I thought this would be a cruddy Hollywood pandering to Appalachian people and since it wasn't taking place in Appalachia it wouldn't be any good.   But as an Appalachian who has been stuck outside of Appalachia so much of his whole life in Indiana the movie boomed in me. Like I feel so out of place with modern society outside of Appalachia and my soul hurts every day I see Appalachia changing for the worse being more modern but no better off. I feel a lot for the main character because I've had a dysfunctional dynamic with my mom and dad and I clung to my mammy a lot when she was alive and the movie made me miss her so much.   Funny enough I also have a brown foreign wife who never got to meet my mammy.   The movie really touched my heart, there's a message of generational trauma and the older generations of faulty parents wanting to right their wrong and be healing grand parents and a resentment held against them by their children for it. And I want to say the end of the movie really touched me. I am my family's legacy and they live through me. I am connected to the land. I will honor their sacrifices. I hold no grudge but all I want is to be better to profit us all.   On a side note I am really sad that I feel less Appalachian at the same time. I wish there were more Appalachian leaders and more diverse thinkers in Appalachian communities so I can speak like an Appalachian again, instead elite Appalachians have to branch out and look to other cultures from the Puritans, Jews, or Germans to learn some few society building practices.   But I'll never get rid of my Appalachian clan heritage