http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1704573/
This is a wonderful story about real people in the East Texas town of Carthage. Bernie (real name), was the assistant funeral director in Carthage. He befriended his neighbors and did good deeds. He was especially attentive toward older women, who are seldom appreciated for their beauty and wisdom.
He met his fellow citizens at a most vulnerable time. He followed up with love and gifts after the deaths of their loved ones. He made them feel special and loved. He made a typical mistake of people from the underprivileged working class. He mistook access to wealth as a way to freedom. It was the opposite and brought a loss of freedom and resentment. His reaction is easily understood. This film is a result of two men seeing an article in Texas Magazine about the real Bernie, and attended his trial, then made this delightful instructive film about human nature.
People often reject what they see and hear for what they want to see and hear. It is why some people believe what politicians say and believe what journalists say and write. Humans want to believe the best and the worst about people they love and hate. Even when what they believe makes no sense at all. It happens even in Cambridge MA, at Harvard University among the best educated and most wealthy people in the world, who often lack common sense. Why expect anything different from the people of Carthage, Texas?
This is a wonderful story about real people in the East Texas town of Carthage. Bernie (real name), was the assistant funeral director in Carthage. He befriended his neighbors and did good deeds. He was especially attentive toward older women, who are seldom appreciated for their beauty and wisdom.
He met his fellow citizens at a most vulnerable time. He followed up with love and gifts after the deaths of their loved ones. He made them feel special and loved. He made a typical mistake of people from the underprivileged working class. He mistook access to wealth as a way to freedom. It was the opposite and brought a loss of freedom and resentment. His reaction is easily understood. This film is a result of two men seeing an article in Texas Magazine about the real Bernie, and attended his trial, then made this delightful instructive film about human nature.
People often reject what they see and hear for what they want to see and hear. It is why some people believe what politicians say and believe what journalists say and write. Humans want to believe the best and the worst about people they love and hate. Even when what they believe makes no sense at all. It happens even in Cambridge MA, at Harvard University among the best educated and most wealthy people in the world, who often lack common sense. Why expect anything different from the people of Carthage, Texas?
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