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Title: Ingeniously accurate
Review: In all it's superficiality, hospitality, and absurdity, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil captures the essence of the South. Though perhaps some instances are more ridiculous than the unfamiliar would like to believe, the atmosphere created in this film is perfect.The characters that Eastwood brings to life are simultaneously astonishing and absorbing. From Williams' indifference toward truth to Kelso's incessant struggle to find it, the characters construct their own illusory environment in which reality can no longer be distilled, and "there ain't no answers."To truly enjoy this film, one must be willing to set aside one's desire to know something definite, one's desire to rationalize, and otherwise rely on what Keat's would call "negative capabilities"-- the abilty to be satisfied without a definite answer. The world of the south is ambiguous, and "truth, like art, is in the eye of the beholder."
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