An insightful piece on the collapse of a world gone mad. Our central figures consist of Henry Fool who enters the simple life of Simon, the garbage person. All hell breaks loose as simple Simon unleashes his sedate wrath in the form of a poem, (that we, the viewer, never get to read but know of its power from the trouble it causes). A little epic that says more about the USA than any other film has over the last decade. Director, John Sayles, has come close on a number of occasions but not in this grander manner.