Hushpuppy's Unhealthyness

The critic states: “Hushpuppy's animistic thinking is a mistake, but this displacement is also a powerful origin point for a necessary myth, for the dream (that is, to make into creed, to make tangible) of our complicity as a dangerous, polluting species.”1 This view instantly suggests the destructive nature of humanity, that has to be maintained and appreciated. Indeed, the film employs this view a lot through the imagery of the village people and their characterizations. For instance, Hushpuppy's father is represented as a psychologically unstable and at times abusive character, the destructive nature of whom is also employed through his constant self-destruction with everyday drinking. Furthermore, his eventual death in the course of the film underlines the …show more content…
Wink goes outside in an attempt to cheer his daughter by scaring off the storm with a rifle, which looks comic and pathetic, which links back to the original idea of Yaeger; it is only a myth that needs to be maintained. Even after the storm, everything gets worse: nothing is growing because of too much water in the village. This all links back to what Hushpuppy says about herself: “I'm a little piece of a big big universe.” demonstrating the position of the director on the humanity as merely a peace of a huge universe, inhabited by all kinds of creatures, that all depend on each other. Indeed, the film in a way promotes the idea of a 'butterfly effect' where all the events are connected to each other, and every little action has a potential to change everything. This is also represented in the filming techniques of the film, that juxtapose the close-ups and extreme long shots; shots of little things, such as warms, and the shots of big scale, such as melting of the glaciers, thus representing the importance of al things in the