86% Beasts of the Southern Wild

Just astonishing. A sympathetic look at what-to-me is a harsh reality: growing up dirt poor but seemingly having everything--enough to eat, enough love, enough fun, enough education. My god, Hush Puppy, the protagonist, even had her own house! But when you're living literally in the dirt, when nature shifts course your reality necessarily shifts with it. In this case, Hush Puppy's life is drowned. Wonderfully told tale from a child's POV. I liked it when the father told the doctor not to talk about his fatal illness in front of Hush Puppy. I like it that things weren't explained. That's exactly what childhood is like, living in the adult's shadow world. I loved the sensuality of the Bayou: buckets of crawfish and crabs dumped on the table and people cracking them open with their bare hands--no fancy crackers for them, thank you--the little girls dancing with the prostitutes, and truely, when the rescuers came and told them they had to leave their drowned houses and go to shelters, my middle-class eyes totally saw how a shelter would seem like an unreal sterile prison, not the salvation that the rescuers imagined it to be. The image of Quvenzhan? Wallis--who is mesmerizing as Hush Puppy--in her little blue pickaninny shelter dress said it all--her world was real and this rescued world is a weird construct.

August 1, 2012

Source: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/beasts_of_the_southern_wild/

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