n this dying town becomes too hard for him to cope with. In Midnight at Jim's elegant Christmas party we learn that two of the women attending alone had their husbands shoot themselves. Although this is not one of the main concerns of this text it still implies that there must be a major force causing these men to do such a thing. Whether it is post-industrial decline of a small town like in The Keepers of Truth is not really made clear to the viewer. However this is probably likely as the women talked about it like a common occurrence. Unlike The Keepers of Truth not as much emphasis is placed on the general social commentary of the time rather of the events surrounding Billy Hansen's murder. It is hard to say things about how Eas
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