King Coal (2023)

King Coal (2023). 1h 20m

“I was expecting something much more incisive about these troubled coal producing regions. There is just an inkling of that – with some funerals and the historical animosity towards unions. But most of the time the film just drifts along with children walking in the woods and sauntering by streams. Itu0026#39;s all very lyrical and poetic.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eNothing is said about the current opiate addiction problems. Little about the health problems of miners. Everybody looks reasonably content and happy. Not a hint of how the decaying coal industry has ravaged the lives of these people.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eLooking at the homes shown – they all look middle class with not a hint of poverty. We are viewing a Potemkin village in rustic West Virginia or Kentucky.”