Beast of the Southern Wild

Beasts of the Southern Wild tells a story somewhere between harsh reality and whimsical fantasy. Based in a small, impecunious community on the border of both New Orleans and modern civilization, Benh Zeitlin, the director, tells a fantastical story. Both the cinematography and score add whole new layers to the story as well. Despite it being his debut in cinematography for a feature film, Ben Richardson creates a masterful and beautiful backdrop for the story to take place. And the soundtrack, curated

their way of life. It is wrong to look at development through a single lens, like most scholars in the Western world do, not taking into consideration that the word “normal” has different meanings for everyone. As we can see in the movie, “Beasts of the Southern Wild” introduces us to the world of a six-year-old black girl name Hushpuppy that challenges the perception of what a normal development should be, for most. Hushpuppy resides with her father, Wink, in a rural part of Louisiana known to its

The movie Beasts of the Southern Wild takes place in a community called the bathtub, a piece of land located on the back side of the levee on the Mississippi river. The main character, Hush puppy, is a little girl who lives by herself but she spends her time with her father. Throughout the movie, there are many talks about the mother that is in not in the picture. The father said that the mother ran away from the community to live a better life because she did not want to experience the harsh conditions

Beast of The Southern Wild is a movie about a young girl name Hushpuppy living in a small town call Bathtub. This community is located in the southern part Louisiana bayou. Unlike any regular community Bathtub is a town that live off the land. Hushpuppy is around 6 years old, and she live with her father, but later she find out he is very sick. She have no mother and this movie we see how independent she is for young child. The people in the town are very unique each person there care for each other

In Benh Zeitlin’s movie, Beasts of the Southern Wild, a young girl named Hushpuppy lives with her father in a small community located in Montegut, Louisiana, known by the locals as ‘the Bathtub’ for its coastal erosion. The area is also isolated from the rest of the population on the other side of a levee. They are faced with periods of intense storms and flooding, as well as long dry periods due to climate change, but their community survives together, helping and protecting each other, and living

The Beasts of the Southern Wild is a movie about a village of people cut off from an industrialized world. In the film, the village does not interact with the modernized people until they are forced to, and even then they are reluctant to do so. These actions portrayed by the people in the village can be related to a quote by Henry David Thoreau when he said, “If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer, let him step to the music which he hears

The film, Beasts of the Southern Wild, tell the story of a rural community called Bathtub in Southern Louisiana to induce themes of classism and community ties. Behn Zeitlin does a great job reminding us of our connection with each other and the world around us. The Americana aesthetic of the film mirrors our hero’s resiliency in the face of destruction. At stake in this aesthetic and exploration of these politically charged themes is an interpretation on how we can connect to each other across

Beasts of the Southern Wild. Dir. Ben Zeitlan. Perf. Quvenzhane’ Wallis, Dwight Henry, Levy Easterly, Lowell Landes, and Pamela Harper. Cinereach, 2012. DVD. In the movie, Beasts of the Southern Wild, the setting and story line portray life in the Bathtub as a struggle; however, residence of the Bathtub sees it as a way of life. A poverty stricken group of citizens making the best of what they have, and when they face hardships, the community comes together to support each other. The movie

not just with the storm, but with themselves. That all of these people coming together and building this boat trying to sail away and find their loved ones and also find themselves, post-storm. I will say that this film does give off the "Beasts of the Southern Wild" feel to it. But that what make the film work and tell its story effectively. Surviving a storm is not easy and finding a way to start new with the things that were left behind is not easy

The film Beasts of the Southern Wild, directed by Behn Zeitlin, is set in Montegut, Louisiana, known by the residents as the bathtub, and follows a young girl named Hushpuppy as her home is flooded. She lives with her father, Wink, and her many, many animals. The bathtub is separated from the rest of the world by a levee built to restrain water from entering the mainland. Both Wink and Hushpuppy are incredibly happy with their lives, though Wink is slowly deteriorating from an unknown illness. However