Every single person shown being evicted in this movie is portrayed as some honest, down-on-his-luck patriot. Not one single person is shown to be as many of them actually are in real life - people who have had months of notice to pay or move out and then act surprised when they get evicted. There is 1 home where the tenant trashes it before they left, but it's only briefly shown. Everyone else is apparently very hardworking, yet illiterate people who couldn't read the notices that you get for MONTHS before you are actually evicted.
In reality, the majority of people who can't pay their mortgage are deadbeats who spend their money on frivolous things. I've gone to homes to serve eviction notices where people haven't paid their rent for months and there will be a brand new $90k truck in the driveway or $10k worth of unnecessary electronics in the house.
I'm not even sure what the moral of this story is supposed to be. That people should be allowed to live in houses for free? Don't be ridiculous. I could probably go for days about everything wrong with the ending. Are we supposed to feel sympathy for the person who gets a gun and gets into a standoff with the police all while his wife and child are in the home? I'm supposed to agree with child endangerment and violence?
The mother seemed absolutely useless as well and as far as I could tell, she had no job and did not contribute anything other than disapproving looks and haughty I'm-better-than-you speeches. He buys a million dollar home for them to live in and she scoffs at it and runs off with his son to live with her brother instead. Ridiculous. He also could have gotten his son back in a day because he is the legal guardian, not her. The ending is extremely contrived and really, so is the rest of the movie. It gets 5 because it's well-acted and produced, but the script was trash.
In reality, the majority of people who can't pay their mortgage are deadbeats who spend their money on frivolous things. I've gone to homes to serve eviction notices where people haven't paid their rent for months and there will be a brand new $90k truck in the driveway or $10k worth of unnecessary electronics in the house.
I'm not even sure what the moral of this story is supposed to be. That people should be allowed to live in houses for free? Don't be ridiculous. I could probably go for days about everything wrong with the ending. Are we supposed to feel sympathy for the person who gets a gun and gets into a standoff with the police all while his wife and child are in the home? I'm supposed to agree with child endangerment and violence?
The mother seemed absolutely useless as well and as far as I could tell, she had no job and did not contribute anything other than disapproving looks and haughty I'm-better-than-you speeches. He buys a million dollar home for them to live in and she scoffs at it and runs off with his son to live with her brother instead. Ridiculous. He also could have gotten his son back in a day because he is the legal guardian, not her. The ending is extremely contrived and really, so is the rest of the movie. It gets 5 because it's well-acted and produced, but the script was trash.