The film Beast of the Southern Wild directed by Behn Zeitlin, follows a young girl named Hushpuppy as her home is flooded. Her world falls apart when her father becomes sick, but she stays strong and works to save her home from destruction. In her head, Hushpuppy animates aurochs, a mythical creature, as a way to deal with her father's upcoming death, suggesting people’s natural instinct is to resist change. The auroch’s Journey throughout the movie represents Hushpuppy’s journey in accepting her father’s death. As the aurochs travel closer and closer to her home, she gets closer to accepting her father's death. They represent her ups and downs when attempting to come to terms with her father’s death.
In the beginning of the movie Hushpuppy is angry at her father, she gives him a little push and her father immediately collapses. Hushpuppy looks up and sees an iceberg fall into the ocean. Frightened, she runs to tell the other villagers, leaving her father on the ground. When …show more content…
In fact, they never even come close to humans at all. All of the images of the aurochs are in empty towns, or barren land. Whenever they are shown in the movie, they are the only animal in sight. This suggests that Hushpuppy feels a disconnection from her and the other residents. She feels isolated and alone, with only her father who is soon going to die. This is because she doesn’t want to accept the fact that she will have to live without her father once he dies. Hushpuppy can’t imagine life without her father and she can’t think of anyone replacing her father. She feels that the other residents will take her father's place and have to live up to him. Because she knows she will have to live without her father and the other residents will take his place. She feels like no one else matters, like they won’t be able to take her father’s place so she is pushing them away. And the feeling of isolation
In the beginning of the movie Hushpuppy is angry at her father, she gives him a little push and her father immediately collapses. Hushpuppy looks up and sees an iceberg fall into the ocean. Frightened, she runs to tell the other villagers, leaving her father on the ground. When …show more content…
In fact, they never even come close to humans at all. All of the images of the aurochs are in empty towns, or barren land. Whenever they are shown in the movie, they are the only animal in sight. This suggests that Hushpuppy feels a disconnection from her and the other residents. She feels isolated and alone, with only her father who is soon going to die. This is because she doesn’t want to accept the fact that she will have to live without her father once he dies. Hushpuppy can’t imagine life without her father and she can’t think of anyone replacing her father. She feels that the other residents will take her father's place and have to live up to him. Because she knows she will have to live without her father and the other residents will take his place. She feels like no one else matters, like they won’t be able to take her father’s place so she is pushing them away. And the feeling of isolation