Beasts Of The Southern Wild Faced with her father's fading health and environmental changes that release an army of prehistoric creatures called a urochs six-year-old Hush pupple leaves her Delta-community home in search of her mother.
Synopsis
In a forgotten but defiant bayou community cut off from the rest of the world by a sprawling levee, a six-year-old girl exists on the brink of orphanhood. Buoyed by her childish optimism and extraordinary imagination, she believes that the natural world is in balance with the universe until a fierce storm changes her reality. Desperate to repair the structure of her world in order to save her ailing father and sinking home, this tiny hero must learn to survive unstoppable catastrophes of epic proportions.
Beasts Of The Southern Wild
Storyline
Hushpuppy, an intrepid six-year-old girl, lives with her father, Wink, in "the Bathtub," a southern Delta community at the edge of the world. Wink's tough love prepares her for the unraveling of the universe; for a time when he's no longer there to protect her. When Wink contracts a mysterious illness, nature flies out of whack-temperatures rise, and the ice caps melt, unleashing an army of prehistoric creatures called aurochs. With the waters rising, the aurochs coming, and Wink's health fading, Hushpuppy goes in search of her lost mother.
I was lucky to see this movie twice during the Sundance Film Festival,
once early in festival when it was all the buzz, and a second time
after it won ***two*** of the highest awards out of 100+ films at
Sundance, Grand Jury, and Best Cinematography.
This movie is brilliant and the movie out of all of Sundance 2012 that
everyone needs to see. Sundance is famous for The Big Lebowski and
Reservoir Dogs and dozens of other awesome movies. This movie is
equally as good as Slumdog Millionaire if not better, particularly
because it has a distinct, wonderful American and American Roots
approach and story. This is the America long forgotten, but still
completely there.
It is vivid and accurate and filmed and based off all real people in
real places in real situations. It feels so accurate but almost like
edge-of-your seat documentary in a foreign country, but it's deep and
in the bayou in Louisiana. I mention it feels like a documentary
because it feels so real and so accurate (and this is why it won the
cinematography award). The movie instantly brings you into this world
and the world of the main characters and you are 100% committed.
The main actor is arguably the best and most vivid 7 year old actor I
have seen (she is on par with Leonard DiCaprio in Gilbert Grape, but
even younger). The performance should be (and there is a chance it may
be considered as) Oscar winning. The character of her father is also a
truly amazing performance as well. Also potentially Oscar winning -- it
is that good. If this movie catches in the theater, I would not be a
bit surprised to see either actor on the stage at the Oscars and I say
that with 100% seriousness.
Because it's told from her perspective and how she sees the world,
there is a little bit of mischief and a the movie brings you right into
the confusion and little but of fantasy of how a 7 year old experiences
the world. It has the feeling of Where the Wild Things Are, in a lot of
ways (the book as well as some aspects of the movie including the parts
where things are scary). Rather than getting lost or confused from her
perspective, she brings you right in, and you fall in love with her. I
would be surprised if this actress does not become a major force in
acting over the next several years.
I hope this review helps and all I can say is take your time to try to
seek out this movie. If for some reason it never makes it to the big
screen, it will be one of the biggest losses of one of the best movies
to come out of Sundance that every American should see but the didn't,
due to the nature of the industry.
PRODUCTION DETAILS
In Theaters |
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MPAA Rating | PG-13 (for for thematic material including child imperilment, some disturbing images, language and brief sensuality) |
Genres | Drama |
Run Time | 1 hour 32 minutes |
Distributors | Fox Searchlight Pictures |
Production Status | Awaiting Release |
Produced In | United States |
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