The writers couldn’t turn their backs on the truth – the truth that life is hard and the truth that faith shouldn’t be portrayed as a panacea to that reality.
On somewhat of a lark, realizing little by way of epiphany had been revealed about the childhood circumstances that yielded Bob Dylan, Thompson went where few journalists had gone before poking around the mining town of Hibbing, Minnesota. There he confronted a question: how to reach the essence of a person who is, by his own design, inscrutable?