***********Beasts of the Southern Wild***********

By Gregimus Malcumis Meridius.

This post is of a film that truly requires no introduction. I would urge you, humble reader, to run as fast as you to scramble out of your window and crash through solid glass  to go see. It's also a film that will grip your heart, steal your soul, and make you wish that this would never happen to any five year old girl.

Hushpuppy has stolen my vote for both upcoming and best actress Oscars. This young five year old did more with her vibrant depiction of lost innocence and growing up far too fast than most actors could hope to achieve in their entire lives. She is the shining star of her generation at this point. Few individuals, if any, have dually merited such praise. She is wonderful to watch and, lest we forget, also improvised more than half of her lines. She makes acting appear child's play. I suppose to her, it is!

Now to the rest of the film. To quote a friend, I wish I could wake up to this film every morning. It fills hearts and souls, minds and bodies with an overwhelming calm that maintains itself throughout. And the joy! The overwhelming joy of the piece! How a first time director could maintain such a careful, pain-stakingly careful mood through a duration the length of the film amazes me.

I had only minor complaints at best and a clear majority of them revolved around the billingand adverts. I expected the beasts to be the giant bores. The beasts were the frolicking humans. The people who showed disinterest in the other woes of a misbegotten world in exchange for a simpler means. A means more sustained by living happy and accepting everything as being their world. Beautiful. Brilliant.  Spellbinding. Love in it's basest and most protective form.

Beasts of the Southern Wild I could, and should go on and on about. But due to time I must cut it short. What I would love to do next would be a close watching of the film and attempting to draw all the metaphors and similarities from this. It plays like it should be Of' Brother Where Arte Thou for a more complex crowd. Hidden and skewed meanings culminating in a feeling of the thought 'Hey buddy, life goes on.'

I gave this movie a 9.18 for being so close to the idea of perfect. A bigger budget would have been welcomed for this film. But the love was still there.

The dude abides.