re: Hillbilly Elegy is one of the worst movies I've seen in a long, long time

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Marine life wasn’t in the book jackass and wasn’t the point.

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Um, what? I’ll have to dig out my copy of the book, but there’s at least one chapter of the book that covers how enlisting in the military was the key to him breaking out of the poverty spiral his family was in. He specifically says that had he not taken some time to grow up, which the Marines provided him, he would have flunked out of Ohio State.

If that review I linked is correct, and his time in the Marines is completely ignored, it most certainly misses one of the key points of the book.

It’s implied that this experience gave him the masculine influence he was sorely needing after having an absentee father and the death of his grandfather.