Saturday, January 12, 2013

Beasts of the Southern Wild 2012


     Wink and Hushpuppy live in the Bathtub, it's a southern Delta bayou community off-shore of New Orleans cut off by a levee.  Wink is sick with a mysterious illness and Bathtub is his six-year-old daughter.  Wink goes to the hospital but he comes home and it’s a struggle for him to take care of Bathtub.  He starts to prepare her for the time when he won’t be around to protect her.  Nature begins to dramatically change, temperatures rise and ice caps start to melt.  A race of prehistoric creatures called aurochs begin to march across the land.
     This film has been nominated and also won a lot of awards but I have to admit, I do not understand this film.  I don’t know what’s real and what is imagined.  I have a feeling that since it is centered on a six-year-old that at least the aurochs must not be real?  I almost gave up, this was a struggle to finish.  2* (I didn’t like this movie)

93 min, Drama directed by Benh Zeitlin with Quvenzhane Wallis, Dwight Henry, Levy Easterly, Lowell Landes, Pamela Harper, Gina Montana, Amber Henry, Nicolas Clark.    
Note:  Blockbuster 4*, imdb 7.6 out of 10, 85% critic 81% audience on Rotten Tomatoes.

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