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We only ever really see it in the movies, and even then, rarely.
If anyone else inMama Weedtried it, they would come off as hopelessly phony.
In the middle of a sting operation, Patience warns the kid to ditch the hash that hes transporting.
The drug dealers she works with are themselves working-class folks.
We keep hearing about rising rents and the ridiculous costs of nursing homes.
Patience herself is already under mountains of debt because of the mess her late con-artist husband left behind.
Her bedridden mom still dreams of the fancy life she led thanks to Patiences gangster father.
(She even shoplifts a small dinosaur toy from a museum shop for a young boy.)
I havent read the book, but itsounds quite fascinatingand perhaps more artful than the film.
Director Jean-Paul Salome doesnt exactly reinvent the wheel stylistically here.
When she talks to Colette, jaunty Asian music plays in the background.
Cinematically speaking, this is all low-hanging fruit.
She is, andMama Weeddoesnt really deserve her.
