Skilfully avoiding patronising or pitying its protagonists – who are instead held up as courageous alongside chaotic – Beasts is an emphatic champion of living by your own rules. His sense of graphic perfection coupled with his tongue in cheek sense of humour and a talent for story telling that have made him such a sought after image maker. Beasts of the Southern Wild. Comment by El Mono Liso — July 5, 2012 @ 4:16 am, >>Though maybe the problem is not magical realism as such, but cases where the magic is not used to comment on reality, but instead annihilates it?<<. Comment by Karl Friedrich — July 5, 2012 @ 2:57 pm. It seems like the director of this movie took that concept and ran with it. For as much praise as Wallis has received as Hushpuppy—she was only five when she auditioned—her performance is built around natural cuteness and spunk. I suddenly realized the religious angle, with its good vs. evil struggle, and have been bitter about this genre ever since. He tells her to put one hand in the water and raise the other above her head with a clenched fist that will be deployed against any fish foolish enough to resist them. I just don’t have patience for the whimsical, the supernatural or the fantastic. But perhaps worse, it loftily treats them like something out of Rousseau – simple people who are somehow more in touch with the earth than us uptight, educated folk. Of course, kitchen matches would work just as well but wouldn’t have that “magical realism” touch. As a child I lived in a flat over top of my grandparents’ beer joint in a black section of Richmond VA, and a lot of folks down there went by, and addressed each other with nicknames. Look, the politics of any event is always incredibly divisive: ‘It was all Bush’s fault.’ Or: ‘It was the local government.’ Black people. 40 films that manage to get magical realism right where 'Winter's Tale' failed Interesting review. Comment by negative potential — July 5, 2012 @ 12:56 pm. Julian Barnes skewered this ‘package-tour baroque’ in Flaubert’s Parrot: Ah, the propinquity of cheap life and expensive principles, of religion and banditry, of surprising honour and random cruelty. The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly. ( Log Out /  Wink and his daughter live in separate ramshackle mobile homes sitting on top of stilts. As someone who has actually caught such a fish, I was so insulted by the foolish notion that you can pluck one out of the water with your bare hands like a dill pickle from a barrel that I just walked out. The prison system is a crime against humanity, and the best Jindal can do is give money to fundamentalist charter schools that teach by literally popping a DVD in and expecting it to teach the class instead of a real teacher (I wish I were kidding, but the story was in the Times-Picayune today). Zeitlin’s debut feature Beasts of the Southern Wild - which felled Sundance with its raggedy, semi-supernatural beauty – is certainly cut from the same generous-spirited cloth. After twenty minutes of “Beasts of the Southern Wild”, I walked out of Lincoln Plaza Cinema muttering under my breath about how much I hate magical realism, especially in movies. They’re obviously not very whimsical, but they use the ‘fantastic’ to reflect on reality, or subverse it, or to philosophise. We don’t know much about Hushpuppy’s mom except for her voice-over remark that she just “swam away”. I have a lot of ideas for this summer! I’m not a fan of magical realism, either, but I do believe that the fault lies more with the execution that it does with the method. Comment by bert — July 24, 2012 @ 9:32 pm. And that feeling curdles the film, like bad cream in café au lait, whether the filmmakers taste it or not. Within the first five minutes or so we are introduced to Wink, an African-American man in his late 30s or so, and his daughter Hushpuppy, who looks about 8 years old. ( Log Out /  There are multiple scenes of drunken crab-shelling parties that seem to have been filmed during actual drunken crab-shelling parties. They’re cut off from conventional American society and situated on the wrong side of a protective levee.

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