Monday, August 20, 2012

Beasts of the Southern Wild


Movie: Beasts of the Southern Wild
Genre: drama
Synopsis: Six-year-old Hushpuppy (Quvenzhané Wallis) and her father, Wink (Dwight Henry) live in an extraordinarily poor delta area near New Orleans called The Bathtub.  It would be a step up to say they lived in squalor.  Wink is sick and is trying to prepare Hushpuppy to survive without him.  When a hurricane hits, The Bathtub is devastated and the survivors struggle to remain alive.

My two cents:  First of all, the actress who played Hushpuppy was amazing.  She was only five when she auditioned for the role.  I don’t think I have ever seen an actor this young be so damn good.  That said, I pretty much hated this movie.  I know it got rave reviews – but I spent most of the movie trying to figure out what the heck was going on.  There were frequent scenes of ice bergs breaking off from glaciers and of some kind of cross between a bull and a boar that ranged in size from a pig to about twice the size of an elephant.  I am sure they symbolize something.  I think this is one of those movies – at least for me – that I should go to in order to see good acting and special effects and not attempt to understand it.  Maybe I was just not in the right frame of mind.

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