Daily paper. Local, state, and wire news and commentary. Photo galleries, business and obituaries. New Girl Season 5 Road Trip' title='New Girl Season 5 Road Trip' />American Honey. Club. The kids are from all over the South, the West, outside the United States, New Jersey, all crammed together in an oversized van, nearly impossible to keep straight. But they come together for bursts of musicradio songs, songs over Kmart PA systems, or once in a while, the sounds of one of them strumming an acoustic guitar. Andrea Arnolds American Honey doesnt contain musical numbers, exactly its interludes are more like the Tiny Dancer scene from Almost Famous crossed with a low budget music video. Even literal background characters get in on the action, from country line dancing in a dingy bar to suggestive moves practiced in the backyard at a young, privileged teenagers birthday party. Star Sasha Lane and Jake Shia La. Beouf are not attending the birthday party in question. Rather, theyve managed to get in the door of a well appointed home because theyre selling magazine subscriptions, the quaintness of which is not lost on either the makeshift salespeople or their customers. The kids in the van really do work for some kind of subscription company, which takes a cut of their sales but provides room and board of the motel variety and sometimes food, in addition to their commissions. Watch Online Watch Bad Country Full Movie Online Film on this page. HBOs official website contains schedule information, original video content, episode guides, polls, bulletin boards, and moreDuring their cross country trips to various neighborhoods, the kids are supervised by Krystal Riley Keough, who looks a bit like Kristen Stewart done up as some kind of hillbilly madame. Each day, Krystal drops her employees off in teams to scour various neighborhoods and then picks them back up at night, preferably with cash in hand. She pairs Star, who has run away from an impoverished life of heavy and unfair responsibility, with Jake, who seems to almost qualify as an old hand in a business that probably has a lot of turnover. Star isnt great at sales. But her willingness to hop into strangers cars goes a long way, and this road movie frequently branches off into side trips following her attempts to make money, prove herself, or meet other goals that seem clear only to her, if at all. American Honey is not, to put it lightly, plot driven it sprawls out in multiple directions without a clear sense of destination, and its 1. Its also frequently breathtaking in its raw nerve beauty. Plenty of recent films can claim Terrence Malick as an influence, but Arnold is one of the few filmmakers who takes that intuitive style in a fresh directionwho builds on it, rather than repeating its contemplative whispers. In place of movie stars who may be cut to 3. In place of narration about nature and grace, there is the nearly all diegetic soundtrack and all the voices singing along. As with her previous films, Arnold shoots American Honey in a square ish aspect ratio of 1 1. In her wonderful Fish Tank, the boxier frame made her teenage girl protagonist look constrained. Here, when used for close ups, it can briefly make Star and the others look huge, looming in a screen shaped more like a classic IMAX screen. New Girl Season 5 Road Trip' title='New Girl Season 5 Road Trip' />Star often appears out of focus in the foreground, especially during the opening half hour when she first spots Jake and the others in a parking lot, theyre tiny but sharp, while shes bigger and fuzzy. As she takes her place in their sometimes quarrelsome ranks, some of the imagery gets bolder and dreamier, like shots of Lane and La. Beouf sitting on the roof of the van as it whooshes through the night. Lane, a first time film performer who Arnold discovered at a beach, holds her own with a compelling sense of defiance. Shes often placed opposite an eye catching performance from La. Beouf, whose hairstyle here makes him resemble a dirtbag Padawan. Arnold touches on a lotrural poverty in America, class divisions, the impulsiveness and recklessness of youthbut never tames her film into a strict polemic. Though small scale on a scene by scene basis, it expands into something at once more enveloping and more elusive a massive, familiar chorus echoing over an equally large superstore PA.