The film Winter’s Bone, directed by Debra Granik is mainly about a seventeen year old Ree Dolly takes care of her mentally ill mother, her brother and sister. Ree makes sures her family gets fed, dressed, off to school and teaches them basic survival skills such as hunting and cooking. Granik explores Ree Dolly’s search for her father who was jailed for cooking meth has put the family house up as bond for his release from a potential jail sentence. She seeks her father and no one in the Dolly tribe will tell her where he is. She takes her journey to the final limit and finds him dead. Ree Dolly, does not give it up to find her father and embarks on a journey through the meth-addled and dealing with poverty of the Missouri Ozarks. The film explores
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A.O Scott who wrote “Where Life Is Cold, and Kin Are Cruel,” argue that Winter's Bone is about Ree discovery of how cruel her native habitat can be and also about her initiation into its ways– a coming-of-age story that is not entirely about breaking free (Scott 3) while Jonathan Scheuer author of “Winter’s Bone.” Cinéaste highlights how Ree is forced to struggle against her relatives oppressive definitions of male and female. I find that one can not make he or she become someone they not because it is one’s own choice to live their life to the fullest; however, people have choices to make everyday in life whether it is to help oneself or …show more content…
Ree's blessing occurs in the winter, both literally and symbolically. In “Winter’s Bone.” Cinéaste article, Jonathan states that
“Novelist Daniel Woodrell, from whose novel of the same name the film was adapted, has said that his title derives from a slang expression in the sense that winter "gives a bone" to his main character” (Jonathan 52). In other words, the winter is showing goodness to ree, by giving up her dead father. She was persistent to find her father and save her family. Thus, Ree Dolly embarks on a journey through the meth-addled and dealing with poverty of the Missouri Ozarks
A.O Scott who wrote “Where Life Is Cold, and Kin Are Cruel,” argue that Winter's Bone is about Ree discovery of how cruel her native habitat can be and also about her initiation into its ways– a coming-of-age story that is not entirely about breaking free (Scott 3) while Jonathan Scheuer author of “Winter’s Bone.” Cinéaste highlights how Ree is forced to struggle against her relatives oppressive definitions of male and female. I find that one can not make he or she become someone they not because it is one’s own choice to live their life to the fullest; however, people have choices to make everyday in life whether it is to help oneself or …show more content…
Ree's blessing occurs in the winter, both literally and symbolically. In “Winter’s Bone.” Cinéaste article, Jonathan states that
“Novelist Daniel Woodrell, from whose novel of the same name the film was adapted, has said that his title derives from a slang expression in the sense that winter "gives a bone" to his main character” (Jonathan 52). In other words, the winter is showing goodness to ree, by giving up her dead father. She was persistent to find her father and save her family. Thus, Ree Dolly embarks on a journey through the meth-addled and dealing with poverty of the Missouri Ozarks