Beasts of the Southern Wild is a 2012 drama/fantasy about a young girl named Hushpuppy (Quvenzhane Wallis) who goes to search for her long-lost mother when her father; Wink (Dwight Henry) falls ill.
The movie takes place in the Bathtub, a place that is cut off from the rest of the world. Wink is preparing his young daughter Hushpuppy for the end of the world. Life in the Bathtub seems both resilient and celebratory. Hushpuppy goes to school where her no non-sense teacher teaches on global warming, ecological shifts and how the Bathtub will go extinct. One day Hushpuppy's father comes home sick and starts yelling at her. She ends up locking herself in her home, and it catches on fire [is this accurate? Or does she purposely set it afire?] because she left something cooking on the stove. While Wink is sick massive ice caps melt and massive storms brew. Waters start to rise and people start to head for higher ground. Wink and Hushpuppy try to save people until Wink starts coughing up blood and asks to be taken to the only place he has ever called home. Hushpuppy doesn't want to see her dad die so she travels across the water on a boat towards a light she believes is her mother. She soon finds out that she can't stop her father from dying and goes back to see him. Hushpuppy ends up having one final dinner of fried gator with her father. She also returns with her friends and family and they parade while water laps at their feet.
In my opinion Beasts of the Southern Wild was a fantastic film and I really want to see the play it adapted from "Juicy and Delicious".
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