Beasts Of The Southern Wild: Realism In Film

Realism in film is neither a rigid genre nor is it an isolated structure in filmmaking and reflects our daily lives projected onto a screen, with a plausible narrative in place and characters we can relate to. Realism films are often devoid of style, or lack an aesthetic and instead focus on the content within the story, which tends to fall towards subject matter surrounding everyday life situations and sometimes addresses societal issues. Realism can combine with a variety of genres such as forms of comedy or horror to an exceptional extent, and most often is seen in it’s raw form in documentaries. Realism is a very flexible term that lends itself to many films that incorporate many other unrealistic elements simply for the fact that the film may be based in realism with added elements and not vice versa. Realism can also define a film in terms of it’s conception, such as the lack of a script and raw shooting on locations without scheduled direction. A straight example of realism in film combining both it’s film-making process and in-film content definition is Bicycle Thieves which uses non-professional …show more content…
It incorporates realism with a heavy formalist influence, blurring the lines between reality and dreams. Hushpuppy is the narrator and primary protagonist of the film, allowing us to view the events from her eyes and come to understand things as she does. Being a young child, she shows a distaste to change and reluctance towards departing from her held beliefs. However, the ending shows Hushpuppy learning to accept that a part of growing up is moving on and allowing change to occur. The narrative at it’s very core is relatable, although it is told with imagination and the interweaving of Hushpuppy’s dream-like encounters with larger-than-life wildlife whom no one else appears to