Beasts of the Southern Wild

[MarkGrace]

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Releases this upcoming week and I'm pretty excited to see it.

[New Mexican Disaster]

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Releases this upcoming week and I'm pretty excited to see it.

I have read nothing but great things about this and I am excited to see it also.

[MarkGrace]

I know it release in some markets last weekend, but so far nothing in Seattle (it did play at SIFF but I didn't get a chance to go). I keep waiting.

[MarkGrace]

Looks like we don't get it until the 13th.

[New Mexican Disaster]

Looks like we don't get it until the 13th.

Something tells me won't get it in Roswell.

[MarkGrace]

Not sure what to make of this. I liked it, just not sure how much. Also not entirely clear on some of the symbolism and what it was intending to convey in a greater context. Gonna have to think about it some more.

Wuap, you should probably see this.

[wuapinmon]

Not sure what to make of this. I liked it, just not sure how much. Also not entirely clear on some of the symbolism and what it was intending to convey in a greater context. Gonna have to think about it some more.

Wuap, you should probably see this.

I read about it in The Week today. I will definitely check it out. I watched The Help this afternoon.

[MarkGrace]

It's getting a pretty interesting response.

Scott loved it: http://movies.nytimes.com/2012/06/27...pagewanted=all

Phillips didn't care much for it: http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2...s-bathtub-film

I listened to their throw down on filmspotting today and it was pretty interesting. I agreed in part with both of them.

[wuapinmon]

I watched this tonight. I need to think about it for awhile.

[Green Lantern]

I'm hoping to see this one again before the Oscars. I complain a lot about the Academy Awards but one of the great things they do is call greater attention to underseen movies like this one.

[Armenag]

Couple questions (spoilers, sort of)

1. Would you consider it a work of magical realism? I suppose that's always an iffy question because it's not as though there are clear bounds to the genre. But all the "magical" elements seemed to me to be simply manifestations of hushpuppy's imagination.

2. What messages or issues did you find most prominent? Many reviews focus on the issues of self-reliance, etc., but I (like Phillips, apparently) had trouble getting past the mental illness (and alcoholism) her dad exhibited and which he did his best to make hushpuppy's inheritance. I have trouble getting on board with Scott's description of it as "a blast of sheer, improbable joy." It seemed to me to portray unhappy people and how their unhappiness is perpetuated.

Also, what did you make of the visit to "Elysian Fields"?

[wuapinmon]

1. Would you consider it a work of magical realism? I suppose that's always an iffy question because it's not as though there are clear bounds to the genre. But all the "magical" elements seemed to me to be simply manifestations of hushpuppy's imagination.

2. What messages or issues did you find most prominent? Many reviews focus on the issues of self-reliance, etc., but I (like Phillips, apparently) had trouble getting past the mental illness (and alcoholism) her dad exhibited and which he did his best to make hushpuppy's inheritance. I have trouble getting on board with Scott's description of it as "a blast of sheer, improbable joy." It seemed to me to portray unhappy people and how their unhappiness is perpetuated.

Also, what did you make of the visit to "Elysian Fields"?

1. Yeah, my wife and I were discussing this. I'd say that it has elements of it. The magical is real and almost mundane. However, I can't really think of anything normal that they consider magical in their environment.

2. I'm not saying that it had issues to talk about, but I think that the theme of how our lack of concern for global warming will cause disruption in the lives of those who dwell in paradise was there. I also see class warfare....the levee is a wall between the haves and the poor.

3. We're all meat. The education we saw, of her going to school, seemed wasted. There wasn't enough development there for it to be meaningful. Where does meat come back into the plot?

4. Elysian Fields reminds me of the Lacanian pre-mirror stage in which the newborn doesn't see a difference between itself and the mother. The men go there to fulfill their longing for being one with the mother again, and she finds her mom there, relishes being held, which reminds me almost perfectly of the Lacanian thing I mentioned above, and once that union is truly fulfilled by love, rather than via lust by the men, she is whole, and able to go back and be the King of the Bathtub. At least, that's my initial thought. Elysian Fields is also a major road in New Orleans that divides the French Quarter from the Bywater....the line, historically, between the seedy Bywater (get the name) and the more genteel French Quarter. So, there's symbolism in the name...maybe even a little from Paris, but having been there too, I can't see anything first hand that comes to mind without doing some reading.

[Mormon Red Death]

1. Yeah, my wife and I were discussing this. I'd say that it has elements of it. The magical is real and almost mundane. However, I can't really think of anything normal that they consider magical in their environment.

2. I'm not saying that it had issues to talk about, but I think that the theme of how our lack of concern for global warming will cause disruption in the lives of those who dwell in paradise was there. I also see class warfare....the levee is a wall between the haves and the poor.

3. We're all meat. The education we saw, of her going to school, seemed wasted. There wasn't enough development there for it to be meaningful. Where does meat come back into the plot?

4. Elysian Fields reminds me of the Lacanian pre-mirror stage in which the newborn doesn't see a difference between itself and the mother. The men go there to fulfill their longing for being one with the mother again, and she finds her mom there, relishes being held, which reminds me almost perfectly of the Lacanian thing I mentioned above, and once that union is truly fulfilled by love, rather than via lust by the men, she is whole, and able to go back and be the King of the Bathtub. At least, that's my initial thought. Elysian Fields is also a major road in New Orleans that divides the French Quarter from the Bywater....the line, historically, between the seedy Bywater (get the name) and the more genteel French Quarter. So, there's symbolism in the name...maybe even a little from Paris, but having been there too, I can't see anything first hand that comes to mind without doing some reading.

#3.. there were all types of things alluding to meat. When they are eating crabs and they all want her to "beast it". Or when her mom makes the gator... or when the dead animals and she can see inside their guts.

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[wuapinmon]

#3.. there were all types of things alluding to meat. When they are eating crabs and they all want her to "beast it". Or when her mom makes the gator... or when the dead animals and she can see inside their guts.

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Yeah, you're right. She does give her dad meat right before he dies. I see what you mean, though I'm not sure that I enjoy the symbolism as much as I'm supposed to.