Every once in a great while you see a movie that makes you say to yourself- That is why I go to the movies! Beasts of the Southern Wild is that movie this year. The star is a little girl named Quvenzhane Wallis. She is simply mesmerizing.
The magical part of this movie is that it takes you into the world of a completely different culture of people and helps you to understand a whole different way of life. For the first time you understand why people didn't want to be rescued during Katrina. My favorite two lines of the movie were descriptions of the evacuation center- "It isn't a prison so much as an empty fish tank." She also describes the patients being treated by the hospital staff as "being hooked into a wall". This reference describes how someone who has never seen a fast food place or a supermarket would view the tubes,IV etc. being used to treat a critically ill patient in the hospital.
This movie weaves the magical thread between reality and fantasy as seen through the eyes of a six year old child. She was truly a beast in every positive connotation of the word!
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