shotgun story and jeff nichol impressive directorial debut and be an intense portrayal of a host of social ill in the southern u represent poverty and lawlessness and broken home and gun . set in a town in arkansas and the film pick up the story of three brother and all young men and name son and kid and boy . the father of this unfortunate trio abandon them when they be at a young age and they grow up in the home of a bitter and vindictive mother . of the three and son be the least hopeless case in a truly dysfunctional trio and but his relationship with his girlfriend and pre teenage son be decidedly rocky due to his gamble addiction . the share rapport between the brother be one of the few comfort in a bleak situation and it make the subsequent tragedy all the more painful to watch . the tragedy begin to unfold when the three brother learn of the death of their father . when they turn up to the funeral they confront the four brother that their father raise after he leave his first family behind . the unpleasant encounter at the funeral stokes up the resentment on each side and initiate an escalate blood feud . the reprisal become increasingly violent a new weapon be use to settle the score represent word and fist and knife and and lastly and inexorably and gun . the violent clash be film only fleetingly and rather than in voyeuristic close up detail and but the tragic consequence be felt with sicken force on both side of the family . it be tell that the police intervene only once during a fight and do so without leave their car vigilantism be leave unchecked . a further tragedy in all of this be that the young child father by son be witness to so much of the violence . the landscape of the american south be beautifully observe in shotgun story while the fecundity of the cotton field and the warm glow of golden sun on the field be contrast with image of sewage flow into river and lily pad decay in muddy pond . the bittersweet soundtrack complement the mixed imagery and use a simple palate of acoustic guitar and cello to considerable effect and playing again and again in your ear long after the credit roll . in the final scene and the desperately sad and tragic event wind up in a curious end and neither happy nor sad and but about a hearten a cinematic experience a i have have this year .