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Beasts of the Southern Wild

It's loosely about "freedom" and shows an isolated outpost of poor, mixed race individuals that don't want the white men to come and save them during an apocalyptic storm. What? I tried to find a good heart or political clarity here, but it only makes light of (dangerous, racy) evocative post-Katrina imagery for your typical father/daughter Disney story. A sentimentalist, racist tale about a sexualized pre-pubescent.

Elliot Kern

15Aug12

Aaron S. and WhatsUpWill like this

SeanMichael

21Aug12

"political clarity" is that even necessary , we all look for differnt things when we go see films but do you actually look for political stuff every time you see a film
Elliot Kern

22Aug12

Every text is political. That's one way to be critical of something. My point is this film plays with fire. It's politicized already and waves a big political flag by using the coast of Louisiana with a "big storm" coming, a stereotypical angry-black daddy that can't control himself in the white-washed clinic... "We don't need anyone's help, the homeless are happy being homeless! Everything is going to be OK for the black girl, she's tough!" Shit like that, wrapped up in the aesthetic of a Levi's commercial. It's not a very sensitive film. It's an exploitative film... I don't know if Zeitlin really understands the weightiness of his subject.
Elliot Kern

22Aug12

Am I the only one with a stick up my ass about this thing?
Omero

17Oct12

"a sexualized pre-pubescent" what?
Elliot Kern

19Oct12

i found the camera's obsession with her legs and ass troubling. not to claim a child is not a sexual creature, but the gaze upon her body is really obvious at times. i've thought a lot more about this film, as well as read many other people's reviews. a lot of us seem to agree it has a lot of problems and zeitlin is in way over his head

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Beasts of the Southern Wild