No one is currently making movies about small town middle
Americans quite like Alexander Payne. He’s like the Frank Capra of Nebraska,
but with a drier sense of humor. It takes a special kind of disposition to tell
stories about people in flyover states without playing down to the erudite and
occasionally superior attitudes of the self-described educated people of New
York and Los Angeles. Nebraska tells
the story of simple people in a rather simple situation. There’s none of that
common-man-in-extraordinary-circumstances here, although Woody Grant is treated
like a hero or a celebrity for reportedly being named the lucky winner of a
million dollars.
