“Holler” is not the first film to chronicle the human toll of the flight of industry from the American Rust Belt to China and other countries abroad, but it might be the most direct. “Holler” makes the subtext text by focusing on an Ohio group of scrappers, crews illegally stripping abandoned old factories and institutional buildings for raw metal that can be sold to Asian buyers.
Writer-director Nicole Riegel uses this conceit, with expressive shots of breaking into haunted factories to rip copper from the walls, as an effective cinematic representation of the economic forces that have torn apart these communities.
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