Midterm (Crooklyn vs Beasts of Southern Beauty)

Name: Gabby Jeannette
Date: 1/19/17

Crooklyn vs Beasts of Southern Beauty

The movies Crooklyn and Beasts of Southern Beauty were both very similar yet very different at the same time. Crooklyn is about a girl that ended up having to the take on the female figure in the household after her mother passes away suddenly. Beasts of Southern Beauty is about a girl that lived a majority of her life learning independence but when hard times hit she had to learn to amp up her skills and be the strong independence woman her dad is trying to raise her to be. In addition to both being independent,got that way because of the same reason. Their mothers passed away which forced them to grow up faster than a "normal" child does. Once they both took on the roles of independent figures, they had to deal with the same situations but in different ways. For example, Troy had to learn to get up and cook and clean for her brothers and Hush Puppy had to learn feed all of the animal and make sure they were in order. Even the movie themselves were similar in specific ways. For instance, they had the same type of genre. Due to the seriousness of the two movies, I'd consider both of them to be dramas.

But there were also some differences that stood out clearly to any viewer, the fact that Troy was raised in a household with supportive and loving family, despite their arguments. But Hush Puppy wasn't, she grew up in a make shift home in uncleanly conditions with a father that tended to show his temper in poor ways to her and drank a lot. Also they way that the movies were filmed were different. For instance, in Crooklyn the opening shot was the one that set the tone for the movie. But in Beast of Southern Beauty, the cut away shots about boars, ice burgs, etc set the tone of the movie for me. 

All and all even though Crooklyn took place in a different time than Beast of Southern Beauty they ended up in the same place metaphorically, as movies about two young girls that grow up with there own problems but grow stronger and more independent though those struggles. This goes for many movies representing the fact that a theme can be shown in many ways. In this case the mutual theme was independence.