Rabih Yaghmour
April 15, 2015
Understanding Movies
Beasts of the Southern Wild We didn’t have time to sit around and cry like pussies,” says the heroine of Beasts of the Southern Wild, six-year-old Hushpuppy, after a hurricane wipes out the shanty town in which she and her father, Wink live. Environmental disaster was the principal theme of the film. At the school in this destroyed village, Hushpuppy learns about the aurochs that are extinct, but still alive in her imagination as heralds of apocalypse. “Any day now the fabric of the Universe is comin’ unravelled,” she says. The film is set in the region beyond the levees of southern Louisiana, in which uneven porches and sidewalks show the fact that the land is gradually sinking. Hushpuppy …show more content…
Southern Louisiana stands at an extreme and in choosing to focus on its environmental problems. The director attempts to speak of those faced by the wider world. For Hushpuppy, the levees are a problem because they make her home more susceptible to flooding than it would be in any other location. Hushpuppy even mentions “They built the walls that cuts us off,” This makes her and her community outsiders in other ways, too. The people of the bathtub are permanently intoxicated, unemployable, resigned to their collective fate, and they live beyond the reach of the law, comprising of an underworld beyond civilization, survivors of the apocalypse before the …show more content…
Everything on your plate gonna fall on the floor.” This lead the viewers to believe that it was her mother because there was several references through out the film that mentioned her mother frying alligator, and she was so hot she walked by the stove and it turned on by itself. When disaster strikes, Wink and Hushpuppy survive by their own efforts, casting themselves adrift in the Bathtub in which they ride out the cataclysm that descends upon
April 15, 2015
Understanding Movies
Beasts of the Southern Wild We didn’t have time to sit around and cry like pussies,” says the heroine of Beasts of the Southern Wild, six-year-old Hushpuppy, after a hurricane wipes out the shanty town in which she and her father, Wink live. Environmental disaster was the principal theme of the film. At the school in this destroyed village, Hushpuppy learns about the aurochs that are extinct, but still alive in her imagination as heralds of apocalypse. “Any day now the fabric of the Universe is comin’ unravelled,” she says. The film is set in the region beyond the levees of southern Louisiana, in which uneven porches and sidewalks show the fact that the land is gradually sinking. Hushpuppy …show more content…
Southern Louisiana stands at an extreme and in choosing to focus on its environmental problems. The director attempts to speak of those faced by the wider world. For Hushpuppy, the levees are a problem because they make her home more susceptible to flooding than it would be in any other location. Hushpuppy even mentions “They built the walls that cuts us off,” This makes her and her community outsiders in other ways, too. The people of the bathtub are permanently intoxicated, unemployable, resigned to their collective fate, and they live beyond the reach of the law, comprising of an underworld beyond civilization, survivors of the apocalypse before the …show more content…
Everything on your plate gonna fall on the floor.” This lead the viewers to believe that it was her mother because there was several references through out the film that mentioned her mother frying alligator, and she was so hot she walked by the stove and it turned on by itself. When disaster strikes, Wink and Hushpuppy survive by their own efforts, casting themselves adrift in the Bathtub in which they ride out the cataclysm that descends upon