Sherman's Watch

I really don't know where to start with this post. The film was... interesting to say the least. It had ridiculously awkward one liners, my favorite one was "A sort of creeping psycho-sexual despair came over me." The odd form of this documentary made it hard to watch/analyse. At first I thought the documentary was pointless, just one attempt to find a girlfriend after another. However, after a while I began to notice just how political the piece was. It was political, not in it's observation of Sherman's South, but more in an observation of different southern cultures. We first McElwee family who appear to be more traditionally southern, each encounter we see after this one shows a different way of living in the South. Many of the people he comes into to contact with are more radical than I imagined the South in the 80's. For example, the Crusoeian islanders, or his protester ex -girlfriend. At the same time we see traditionalist view points on marriage, and government. Is this documentary a good representation of the South, or does his choice of interviews create a false southern image?