Saturday, January 7, 2017

Winter's Bone; Kaysha Carrasquillo

Kaysha Carrasquillo
1.7.2017
Intro to Film Studies


Winter's Bone

This film has to be my all time favorite; it is a strong drama that holds a female as the lead character. The starring actress is Jennifer Lawrence, a very well-known actress. She plays the role of a strong daughter who is left in charge of the household after her father disappeared and her mother went nuts!

She has two younger siblings and a large amount of land that she had charge of as well. She had to find all types of ways to keep her household and family safe after her father disappeared. The whole understanding of her father was very confusing, but I know he had a rough past when it came to selling drugs and had a lot of enemies that wanted him dead, so I believe that's why he went into hiding. Also the cops were looking for him with a warrant for his arrest. The enemies that he had didn't have the chance to take out their anger on him, so they took it out on her as being the eldest child.

Surprisingly her sketchy uncle 'Tear Drop' (Academy Award-nominee John Hawkes), that everyone was afraid of, was the one to help her out, and the only one that seemed to actually care for. He was a very serious, mysterious person but somehow showed care and protection for her and her two little siblings. For example, when she got jumped by the mob that dislikes her father, and they wanted to teach her a lesson, he went to the garage that they kept her in after beating her and took her with him to his home. I didn't get why he didn't do that in the first place, and just have her live with him? I later realized that he was only a angry and mean person because of the trouble and death of his brother.

Once the death of his brother/their father turned out to be true, everything seemed to calm down, because that was the plot, and solution that everyone wanted was for him to be dead. Now at the end when that came out the mob left her alone, and the uncle gave her siblings and her a chicken which to me was a symbol. But after he gave them that, she tried to give him the money [her father's banjo] that was given to her, but he said hold it, which to me meant he wasn't going to come [back] because he figured out who was his brother's killer.

Yes this film was all over the place, but every scene had a meaning to show bits and parts of her life and struggles, but I honestly loved it.  

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