Film Review – Small Town Wisconsin

Stories about the Midwest tend to include a lot of misery. There’s something about this area of America where joy doesn’t reside, at least according to filmmakers, who tend to use the region as a way to study small-scale tales of depression and hardship. “Small Town Wisconsin” is no different, with screenwriter Jason Naczek examining the difficulties of a man who’s struggled with vices and mistakes his entire life, encountering a family divide that threatens to permanently break him. Naczek makes a clear effort to keep the material approachable, aiming to provide a character study concerning everyday struggles and long-term challenges. The material is very graceful when it comes to approaching ruinous behavior, and while “Small Town Wisconsin” is dark, it’s far from impenetrable, striving to give viewers an emotional journey with the main character and the many issues of his life that need to be addressed during a most stressful period of self-reflection. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com