pompous as harold bloom call this the great film of all time and and i see what he mean . it an elaborate parody of the then current northern melodrama the family in the cabin worryin and cryin and milk the elk amid the sloppy cut rear projection and mush the dachshund and spill a hatful of soap flake in the soup . w. c. field be an a hole the way eminem be an a hole and it a floating theme . he also play the dulcimer with his mit on and narrate the tale of the salvation army girl who high kick his son in the forehead and a trick she would learn before she have be save and have a cry fit with a mouth full of cracker . and more all in eighteen minute . it rock .