"Mud is like a drug to me. Better than doing drugs," affirms Matthew Burns, the central figure in Andrei Bowden-Schwartz and Sam B.
Jones' debut feature documentary. If that statement seems puzzling to you, much will be made clear by Red, White & Wasted.
Exploring the culture of "mudding" and the lives of the self-described rednecks in central Florida who embrace it with a passion, the film proves a valuable, if sometime difficult to endure, example of cinematic ethnography.
Mudding, for those unaware, is a raucous activity involving driving trucks and jeeps through oceans of mud until the vehicles, and everyone in the vicinity, are thoroughly splattered.
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