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...slime line place of work in a cannery, workers clean off fish slime and remove the blood, guts, and gills that the machine left behind and trim the fish for packaging...
Life at either kind of plant can be both physically grueling and psychologically isolating. Herne describes his first few weeks and a struggle "to get off the 'slime line," which, according to Herne, "is the worst job in America...
...addition to the bizarre melange of genres, the film is somewhat annoying in its Dan Quayle-esque Republican insistence upon family values. Though Haynes is a slime and a psychological misfit, Eastwood and Costner render him thoroughly endearing to the audience. The film also suggests that Haynes is somehow less accountable for his actions, and his anti-child-molesting streak becomes the prime justification for some of his crazy antics. The film never makes a definitive statement on the question of this moral responsibility, but chooses its points of drama for the lesser issues of the guilt, fear and confusion...
...which offer a high degree of personal attention: the office in Georgia's Douglas County, for example, serves only 17 farmers. Tom Clonts, one of the two agricultural agents who staff the federal office, gives free advice on everything from building a barn to canning peaches to controlling pond slime. The cost to the government of operating the extension office, which is largely supported by Georgia state and local taxes, is about $85,000 a year...
...make an audience wince out loud. A white drug dealer perforates some black thugs. Palms get sliced, feet corkscrewed, skulls smashed with toilet-tank lids, eyes and other essential organs blown out. The movie climaxes with a dozen or so thugs, druggies, cops -- and that lowest form of slime mold, a movie producer -- edgily pointing heavy artillery at one another...