Winters Bone, or the slow roast that came out less than Perfect

 In the movie Winter's Bone we see the story of Ree (played by Jennifer Lawrence before losing her talent) and a struggle to keep her family in one piece. After Ree's mother becomes traumatized and unable to care for her little brother and sister, she must give her aspirations for being in the army away to become the family's main provider. Unfortunately she runs into trouble when her former drug dealing gone snitch dad mysteriously disappears, leaving the country police wanting Ree's house or her dad.  While tracking down her dad she gets beaten down by both her dads old gang and her own uncle. She thinks her dad is dead, but unless she can prove it her long time family home gets evicted. The movie tries very hard to be a down to earth mafia movie…. then forgets the motivation in the final act. Of course I’m referring to the part where they literally have her cut the arm of the father off to give to the police, leaving more questions than answers. First off, how in the absolute hell did the cops not question why she has the arm of her dead father that none of the previous officers could find. Secondly, The movie jumps from Ree and her uncle (Teardrop, no i didn’t make that up) to the old family just showing her where her dad was. Not to mention the same group that gave her the black eye she has throughout the whole movie. Honestly their reason to show Ree to her father's rooting corpse was literally our reputation as shady drug dealers are in jeopardy, so we’ll show you where we killed your dad to better it. In my opinion it is one of the weirdest sequences I’ve seen in a movie which is far from something to brag about. Anyway the movie ends with Teardrop realizing the gang was the ones that killed his brother because reasons., and him giving Ree the banjo before Ree’s sister plays her Uncle's former instrument as the screen cuts to black. I’ll admit it’s not the worst movie in the world, but I’d being lying if I said I enjoyed it. At least Jennifer Lawrence isn’t as annoying as she is in: American Hustle, Passengers, any X-men movie, any Hunger Games movie, and the Beaver. Unfortunately though, it will just be another one of her movies that I wanna throw in the trash.