This film has “a sense of childhood wonder with
the harsh realities of the adult world.”
According to Wikipedia BEAST OF THE SOUTHERN
WILD is a fantasy drama but for me it’s more of a social realism drama.
Nominated at the 2012 Academy Awards for Best
Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Actress for Quvenzhane Willis – the youngest nominee in
Oscars’ history – BEAST OF THE SOUTHERN WILD is based on a one-act play written
by Lucy Alibar entitled “Juicy & Delicious”.
A movie full of emotions with poetic approach
and bombarded with the difficulties of life, BEAST OF THE SOUTHERN WILD focuses
on a 6 year old child, Hushpuppy (Quvenzhane Wallis) who grew up on a
catastrophic part of this world. Raised by his father’s tough love, Wink (Dwight
Henry) he longed for his mother and this triggered his search.
A little beast of this big universe who lived in
a bath tub flooded from time to time is fierce yet fragile, strong yet innocent
and aggressive yet soft-hearted. Hushpuppy carries an emotional weight heavier
than the entire universe.
Director Ben Zeithlin has a great empathy with
lucid & vivid imagination in film making. Truly, wisdom is inside him. (If
I’m not mistaken this is Ben Zeithlin’s 1st full length movie, as “Egg”,
“Origin of Electricity”, & “Glory at Sea” are all short films.)
BEAST OF THE SOUTHERN WILD is full of
loneliness, struggles and most of all hope. While there is life, there is hope –
let’s hold on to this tenet.
Emotionally amazing.
Rating: 5/5
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