i just love malle documentary . they be so effortless and simple but still so fascinating . i have no idea why this documentary work . it be about glencoe and minnesota . 5000 people live there and nothing happens and really . but still malle manages to make it fascinate and interesting . his love for humanity and even racist or homophobic people and be so overwhelming that you just can not help but also to fall in love with them too . malle film most of it in 1979. he come back 6 year later to see what have change . this would have be a good film without the material 6 year later but this small addition make it great . it may sound like malle be just do what have be do in the up series but in fact it be not . the up series be about people . malle emphasis be not so much on what happen to each person but what have happen to this community . and the change be great . 1985 be the reagan era and the farmer be suffer . once a proud community and now no one see much future at all and parent hope their child will educate them self and do something else than farm . this documentary be quite relevant today . our financial crisis today start because of what be happen then . just take a look to these final word in the film and speak by an old lawyer from the town ( in 1985 ) representwell i have high hope for this country because the thing that be go on right now can only be characterize in my mind a an obsession with greed . and a nation doesn not live long with that obsession . and particularly a democracy that . there good there good a lot of good in this country and a lot of good people and they aren not gon na they aren not gon na subscribe to this philosophy of greed that go on now . it horrible . unfortunately it take more than 20 year and a hell of a headache before that happen .