Beast of a Southern Wild (E.Luck)

Beasts of a Southern Wild was written by Benh Zeitlin showcasing the life of Hushpuppy (Academy Award-nominee Quvenzhane Wallis) a girl who lives in a small town in  Louisiana bayou community nicknamed the Bathtub.  The movie uses thematic elements such as foreshadowing and symbolic references to develop the main idea. 

 SPOILER ALERT!!! The main idea of the movie is Hushpuppy knows both environments that she lives in like her family and community and the actual world are changing, and she can’t do anything about it.  Her natural world is changing due to global warming causing her town located on the edge water level to rise due to a strong storm that resulted in flooding. Her home environment is also changing because it her father is dying, and he is not going to be with her for much longer.

Throughout the movie Hushpuppy faces many challenges like being homeless and having to travel throughout her damaged community all while evading the police who want to take her out of her known environment.  She also has to deal with the slow death that her father is going through.  All the while having her own issues that she must deal with like the survival of her, and her father. 

Towards the end of the movie we realize that everything that was foreshadowed earlier in the movie did not come true.  Hushpuppy alone stopped the beast that were going to destroy the world by standing up to them, stopping them in their tracks.  Over all I think this movie used elements of a successful movie, having things like suspense, drama, action and a story line that reveals itself in the end of the film.  Overall I would rate this movie 7/10.