Carolina Low
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
During the Great Depression, two young men in rural North Carolina rob banks to help neighbors whose farms are being foreclosed. The film follows their attempts to do good in hard times.
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What happens
Carolina Low (originally titled Paradise Falls) is a 1997 American independent Southern Gothic crime drama period film directed by Nick Searcy and written by Sean Bridgers and his mother Sue Ellen Bridgers. The film focuses on two young men in the Appalachian countryside of Western North Carolina engaging in bank robberies to give back to their impacted neighbors due to the foreclosures of their farms by banks during the Great Depression. It was filmed on-location in Jackson, Haywood and Macon counties in North Carolina during a 23-day period in 1995. It received the award for Best Feature Film under $1 million at the 1998 Hollywood Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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