Beasts of the Southern Wild

There is a point to all this. As well as offering a delicious audio-visual feast, the film firmly makes the case that those who have least to blame for global warming — those living close to nature — will be the ones who ultimately suffer the most. If we have to be taught such a grim lesson then this is the way to do it.

Beasts of the Southern Wild transports us to places that are peculiar and dangerous and magical, and makes us feel weirdly at home.

There's no way you won't be captivated by Wallis, chosen ahead of 3,500 candidates to play the tiny folk hero who narrates the story. Her performance in this deceptively small film is a towering achievement.

Brings you into a world you didn't know existed with a closeness that the movies almost never achieve. If that constitutes exploitation, then it's a crime which all works of art should aspire to commit.

Don't miss this one. A brave and inspired antidote to time-wasting mainstream movies, it is unlike anything you've seen before or will likely ever see again. In short, it is unforgettable.

The problem with Beasts of the Southern Wild is that, like "The Tree of Life," it seeks to integrate its small, very personal story into a much larger, more ambitious tapestry.

Winds up feeling like a form of emotional tourism. The images recall Terrence Malick, but the film fills "atmosphere" into dry narrative holes where a story should reside.

It has been a long long time since a film made me cry and this one pulled it off despite my watching it on a screen in the back of the seat in front at 30,000 feet in the middle of the night. A moving glimpse into a world of poverty and stuggle that is (thankfully) alien to most of us.

Beasts of the Southern Wild is a very, very interesting film. It can be great and powerful, but it can also be incredibly meandering and overly confusing. For the most part, these elements are divided between the two halves of the film. The first half is slow, unfocused, and hard to grasp. The second half is powerful, down to earth, and a moving look at this girl in her crazy town. Though the townsfolk can be deeply annoying and overtly alcoholic, their encounters are still unique and crazy enough to be oddly endearing. Quvenzhané Wallis made me want to smack her at times for being so damn annoying, but at other times, she was a brilliant actress with incredible nuance. There is a happy medium somewhere, but luckily, her performance was still quite good, even if annoying at times. The film is an interesting blend of fantasy and drama, while being set in post-Katrina Louisiana that is still under constant threat of hurricanes. Sadly, the film's unwillingness to teach the audience about its setting and its characters beyond little exposition is really unfortunate and holds the film back.

It may get a little bit too meta and strange for its own good, but "Beasts Of The Southern Wild" certainly doesn't care as it delivers a thoughtfully verite style overlayed upon an unconventionally winsome story and environment.

I actually tried so hard to like this movie, but i couldn't. i mean i don't get it, the whole nature thing and how people are proud by living these types of unhealthy dirty lives, the movie isn't good looking at it best, i mean i've seen movies about wild and nature and i actually liked it like "into the wild" but this one failed to deliver anything important, i didn't like the narrating, the story (if there was any) and i didn't like the view of the movie, it just didn't work at all for me and you might like it, but i didn't.

This is yet again another art house film that thrives on being completely unique and distinctive from other movies, but lacks any gratifying elements that mainstream movies "sometimes" possess. It was boring and the storyline is unsettling.