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BY MOLLY TEMPLETON
It’s to director Benh Zeitlin’s credit that Beasts of
the Southern Wild avoids completely romanticizing or
condescending to its characters and their poverty. For the
most part, Beasts veers between different kinds of reality
with love and zeal, building a very real, very messy, very
beautiful world in the Bathtub while giving Hushpuppy
an intensely thoughtful, emotional internal life that
manifests in the way she looks at her father — all anger
one minute, all love the next — or picks up a startled
chick to listen to its heartbeat. Hushpuppy wants to get
her fi nger on the pulse of the world, to understand the
way things fi t together and clash and make room for a
little girl in a lost place.
Beasts has the contradictory, inevitable, glorious feel
of a myth, a folk tale about a place that never was but
is everywhere, in a time that’s entirely now and could
have been decades ago — its heroine owns a place
somewhere between Huck Finn and Winter’s Bone’s Ree
Dolly in the pantheon of cultural memory. The plucky,
perfect, bittersweet score twines with the images of run-
down buildings and fl oating havens; the shaky handheld
camerawork mirrors the unstable nature of Hushpuppy’s
home; beauty and disarray coexist as neatly and precariously
as the small community and the deadly water that rushes
in after a storm. A carefully crafted rhythm loops through
Beasts, stringing together images, characters and scenes,
building them up and shaking them loose again like a song,
or a symphony.
But the fi lm couldn’t have been what it is without
Willis, with her stony stare and high-pitched battle cry, her
set shoulders and careful expression, earnest and curious
but wary and protective. Hushpuppy knows she belongs in
the world, and she doesn’t bow to it just because it’s bigger
than she is. When she dives into the water, leading her girls
on a quest, you know she’s getting back out again. The
water isn’t taking anything away this time. It’s her water,
her Bathtub, her father — and her story.
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Life at the Edge of the World
Beasts of the Southern Wild tells timeless tale of survival
BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD :
Directed by Benh
Zeitlin. Written by Zeitlin and Lucy Alibar. Cinematography, Ben
Richardson. Music, Dan Romer and Benh Zeitlin. Editors, Crocket Doob
and Affonso Goncalves. Starring Quvenzhané Wallis and Dwight Henry.
Fox Searchlight Pictures, 2012. PG-13. 93 minutes. 00001
S
ix-year-old Hushpuppy (Quvenzhané Willis) lives
with her father, Wink (Dwight Henry), in the Bath-
tub, a damp, wild, insular place at what feels like
the edge of the world (but is more likely the edge of New
Orleans). She tends to their chickens and pigs, goes fi shing
with her father, and draws creatures on cardboard boxes in
her house — her own scrappy house, standing on crooked
stilts like something out of a dark fairytale. Her father has
his own little house across the way; their friends are just a
boat trip across the water, always ready to celebrate one of
the Bathtub’s nameless holidays.
Fear colors a lot of Hushpuppy’s existence — her father
is ill; a storm could come any day; her teacher told her
about the aurochs, huge, mean creatures from ages past,
and she imagines them breaking free from icy prisons and
racing to her home — but what fear looks like to her and to
us is something entirely different.
Gently, beautifully, Beasts of the Southern Wild weaves
two stories: there’s Hushpuppy’s story, an apocalyptic and
personal coming-of-age about a little girl holding her fears
close and coming to terms with them; and then there’s the
story we bring to the movie. In that story, we’re the rest of
the world, the voice in the helicopter telling the Bathtub’s
residents that they’re in a mandatory evacuation zone,
or the well-intentioned outsiders who see only extreme
poverty and dirty bare feet, and want to clean up the kids
(Hushpuppy has a tiny girl gang) and send them to school.
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