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Beasts of the Southern Wild [Blu-ray]

Quvenzhané Wallis (Actor), Dwight Henry (Actor), Benh Zeitlin (Director) Format: Blu-ray
4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 3,141 ratings
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Genre Drama
Format Multiple Formats, Blu-ray, Dolby, Subtitled, Color, Widescreen, DTS Surround Sound, AC-3
Contributor Dwight Henry, Benh Zeitlin, Pamela Harper, Lowell Landes, Quvenzhané Wallis
Language English
Runtime 1 hour and 34 minutes
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In a forgotten but defiant bayou community cut off from the world by a sprawling levee, six year-old Hushpuppy exists on the brink of orphanhood. Her mother long gone, and her father Wink a wildman on a perpetual spree, Hushpuppy is left to her own devices on an isolated compound filled with semi-feral animals. She perceives the natural world to be a fragile web of living, breathing, squirting things, in which the entire universe depends on everything fitting together just right.So when a hundred year storm raises the waters around her town, her daddy is suddenly stricken with illness, and fierce pre-historic creatures awaken from their frozen graves to come charging across the planet, Hushpuppy sees the natural order of everything she holds dear collapsing around her. Desperate to repair the structure of her world in order to save her ailing father and sinking home, this tiny hero must learn to survive an unstoppable catastrophe of epic proportions.

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  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.6 x 5.3 x 6.7 inches; 3.2 ounces
  • Item model number ‏ : ‎ FXSE2282478BR
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Benh Zeitlin
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ Multiple Formats, Blu-ray, Dolby, Subtitled, Color, Widescreen, DTS Surround Sound, AC-3
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 34 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ January 14, 2014
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Quvenzhané Wallis, Dwight Henry, Lowell Landes, Pamela Harper
  • Dubbed: ‏ : ‎ Spanish
  • Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English, Spanish
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ Fox Searchlight
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B008220ALC
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 2
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 3,141 ratings

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4.6 out of 5 stars
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EC
5.0 out of 5 stars EXQUISITE film
Reviewed in the United States on December 7, 2023
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This is one of the most beautiful films I have ever seen. The acting is amazing, especially when you consider that most of the actors were not professionals and many had never acted before. The main character is played brilliantly by a 6 year old girl who gives it everything she has, and she has great talent. The direction, staging, and cinematography are all exquisite, and the story is moving, touching, and beautiful without ever descending into pathos or sentimentality. It's a raw and yet very beautiful portrayal of a small community living on the edge in more ways than one, and how they hold together and support one another while at the same time maintaining strong self-reliance.

The people who criticize this film seriously need to take a look at themselves and examine their reasons for such criticisms. Unless you have lived in a community something like this, unless you have lived on this kind of edge of life and deep poverty and outside of mainstream society, you have zero concept of what you are seeing, of how it is to live in these places, of the strong love and character that is portrayed in this film, and you have no factual basis for your self-righteous judgements of how these people are living. Anyone who wants to criticize this film based on how the life of these folks and this child is portrayed should take time to examine your attitudes of coming from privilege.

Not everyone needs to live the same way and just because they are not living the same way you are or raising their children in the same ways you are doesn't mean they are wrong. There is no child abuse going on in this film. There is poverty and lack of certain things, but there is also closeness to nature, freedom, great love and caring, vast opportunities to learn and grow, and a level of community support that you will only very rarely find in cities or suburbia among the wealthy and privileged people.

See the film for yourself and watch it with an open mind, setting aside your concepts of how your way of life is the only Right way to live, and enjoy the beauty and magic that is presented here.
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Mark Thiel
5.0 out of 5 stars A masterpiece. It's about the beginning and the end of the world. Magical realism is very sparingly employed, to great effect.
Reviewed in the United States on March 15, 2015
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A masterpiece. It's about the beginning and the end of the world. Magical realism is very sparingly employed, to great effect.

The film depicts a world unto itself, a place so specific, so utterly culturally unique, that it is almost mythical. It's a place surrounded on all sides by water. It's a sandbar/swamp perched barely above sea level, in waters beyond the bayous of what must be Louisiana. It might as well be a floating village, a bunch of rafts just lashed together somewhere out in the ocean.

The maybe two or three dozen people who live there call the place that they live "the Bathtub."

They are able to swim to the mainland, but it's not easy. Moreover, they would never choose to live there, among people who live on solid land.

The outside world is little more than a myth to these people. (The film might be compared to a great book about a similiarly tiny and isolated village -- "Suna no Onna," or "The Woman of the Dunes," by Kobo Abe.)

The people live symbiotically in a tumbledown village of shacks barely held together by scraps of paper, wood, road signs or posters, or whatever other debris floats their way, all patched together. They and their village are perpetually on the edge of extinction, not only because of the tiny size of their population and their utter isolation, but because any real rise in the waters could simply erase their community from the map.

They live precariously in abject poverty on the very border of existence and non-existence. But they are not hungry. And they are very happy, content, tight-knit. They have a little school, where the teacher sometimes shares her beliefs, speaking passionately but informally about the beginning and the end of the world, sharing some of the mythology that is actually tattooed on her body. For the teacher personally, it seems like some kind of mixture of religions, some kind of cajun voodoo. And of course the kids are impressionable. The people live in nothing more than bare subsistence, third world conditions. But again, they are happy.

These people have an intimate relationship with Nature. This is partly because of the watery world they live in, their extreme poverty living in sand and mud, largely open to the elements. It's partly because of their intimate relations with their food sources. They catch or kill with their own hands everything that they eat. It's hand to mouth, daily. It's partly because of their extremely small population, which fosters closeness and interdependence. These people live in close quarters in the sense that the very land under their feet is nothing more than a tiny sandbar surrounded by sea, sky, mist.

In this mix is a very little (tiny) girl who has tremendous dignity, beyond her years. Though not visibly apparent, we gradually find that she seems to have an inarticulate -- or unarticulated -- but almost superhuman comprehension of the world she lives in, an almost magical grasp of the nature of, and the frailty and durability of, life and death. Interestingly, the viewer of the film does not even know whether these qualities are necessarily unique to her, or qualities common to her people. She's the protagonist, so we see everything through her eyes.

The little girl sees past, present, future, dreamtime all intermingled, co-existing. The film has absolute temporality and specificity of time and place -- but it is a place so specific, so unique that you cannot know whether such a place actually exists.

We only ever know the little girl as "Hushpuppy." That's what she's called, and for all we know, that's her actual name.

A flood comes. Given the precarious and only semi-terrestrial existence of the village, the flood is of truly biblical proportions. It is devastating, leaving carcasses floating in the water and washed up in the mud. Meanwhile, Hushpuppy's father (her only parent) is dying of some kind of illness.

The father is nothing but gruff with the little girl throughout the film, but it turns out that this demeanor is misleading.

The truth is that he basically sees and therefore treats his tiny daughter -- who is little more than a baby -- as an equal, as if he knows the strength or magic she has. And we don't know how much of that strength or magic is a result, actually, of her upbringing by this man.

The father's treatment of the girl seems for a good part of the beginning of this film to be abject, what you'd call criminal, neglect. He disappears for days without even telling the girl that he's leaving. She wanders for days in the mud, in her underwear. Then he shows up again. He apparently assumes that while he's gone, she'll wander to someone else's shack and they will take care of her, or that she'll get hungry and simply kill a chicken or something. He doesn't disappear because he's drunk or anything. He has his reasons for disappearing. Still, he doesn't so much as mention to this little girl that he's leaving or where he's going or where he's been.

Ultimately, the little girl, Hushpuppy, sees the apocalypse -- directly, with her own eyes -- but simply rejects it, out of strength, principle, loyalty, and a sense of belonging. It's as if the world actually ends, but she simply wills it back into existence.

Her father dies. She wraps and ties his body up in a blanket, sets him in a boat, sets the boat ablaze, and pushes it out to sea. Life goes on, because she tells it to. She's barely more than a baby, with a profound sense of heritage and belonging.

"Once there was a Hushpuppy, and she lived with her daddy in the Bathtub."
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G. Thomas
5.0 out of 5 stars Fast Service. Here ahead of time.
Reviewed in the United States on March 6, 2024
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Prompt Service. They thought there was a problem but there was no problem at all. Checked with the carrier they sent it by (DHL) and everything was fine. Will definitely deal with decluttr again.
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J. L. Sievert
5.0 out of 5 stars Cosmic Hushpuppy
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 1, 2018
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Bizarre film at first glance, rather amateurish and disjointed, the editing dodgy, the story itself teetering on the edge of incoherence. Yet it’s endearing, subversively beguiling. It has charm. Charisma too because of Hushpuppy, an adorable six-year-old girl who melts all before her (both hearts and ice).

Who is she? A tiny string-bean girl with a large frizzy afro, wild imagination and beautiful Creole voice whose musical sing-song cadences come straight out of the Louisiana bayou. No way to describe that voice. Has to be heard to be adored. In it there’s innocence and wonder, but also cocksure pride that the cosmos and Hushpuppy are one, or even that the cosmos was created so that Hushpuppy could be born into it in order to discover it, to make it real. The child’s view is simple yet touched by grandeur, a sense of unity and beauty that inspires awe. The world isn’t anything like Hushpuppy conceives it, yet you wind up loving her for seeing it as she does. You want her visions too. You want her to be right, just like you want the world to be right, to be a better place than it is, far more just and equitable and sane.

Hushpuppy is poor. So is Wink, her daddy. So is everybody else around her, all her neighbours — black, white, brown, mulatto, many colours of the rainbow. Poverty here is endemic, as is survival. They’ve been doing it for generations, living off next to nothing, off chickens, hogs, fish, crab and sometimes alligator for food; moonshine for drink; tattered garments for clothes; scraps and junk for shelter — old lumber, wooden crates, sheet metal, plastic tarps, rotten planks from beached fishing boats, baling wire, rusted car doors, whatever works to build their shacks. But they have each other, something called community, a thing that used to be common in the world but isn’t anymore. They live hand to mouth but look after one another, unlike the city dwellers whose jungle lives demand dog eat dog. So Hushpuppy’s life is bathed in two great things: the cosmos and love.

And speaking of bathing, which they do once in a while, they live in a place nicknamed The Bathtub. What’s that? A depression in the land below the levee, a coastal place of high risk due to global warming and rising tides. The rich live in the city beyond the levee, protected by the smugness of their money and engineering ingenuity. When the ice melts, as it will (as it’s melting right now), The Bathtub will flood and overflow. What then? Boats and logs and rafts, anything that floats, even old pick-up trucks with thick beams attached to them. People and animals and vegetables, just like with Noah’s ark. The water won’t kill them. They’ll find a way to survive, just as they always have. But if the levee breaks — look out! That’s something different for others. That’s disaster. That’s catastrophe. That’s death. The urban folk will drown.

Hushpuppy walks barefoot to the old school-house the way Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer used to at their school. Her teacher, Miss Bathsheba, teaches the children about nature and global warming. Do you know the ice caps are melting, children? Do you know what man is doing to God’s green Earth and to all his creatures great and small? They know because Miss Bathsheba has taught them. One day the ice caps will melt and the frozen aurochs in them will thaw. Then what? The aurochs will wake up and be hungry. What are aurochs? Great beasts like mammoths. Big tusks. Ferocious temperaments. Darwin says the strong survive, so they are Darwin’s beasts. Even the people in The Bathtub will have no chance. The aurochs will conquer the world like man once did. They will devour things but they won’t poison the land, sea and sky as man does now.

They are coming. Miss Bathsheba says so. So does the sea. Hushpuppy knows. She writes things down on cardboard boxes. Why? For scientists of the future, for the wise or lucky ones who survive. What does she write? She writes Hushpuppy was here. She saw what happened.

Hushpuppy is a girl but she’s also a state of mind in Hushpuppy’s mind. There in that mind Hushpuppy looks at a character called Hushpuppy and talks about her, as we do, in the third person. Both Hushpuppies are anchored in their homes, one in The Bathtub, the other in the cosmos.

As stated, the cosmos makes sense to Hushpuppy because it brought Hushpuppy into it. Was there a cosmos before Hushpuppy? We and Hushpuppy can’t picture it, just as we can’t picture nothingness, the nothingness that existed before the Big Bang created time and space and matter. The cosmos gains consciousness through Hushpuppy, looks at itself through her. The stars in the firmament are truly there because Hushpuppy is here to see them. Miss Bathsheba says stars are other suns, light and warmth for other worlds. Hushpuppy believes her. She believes everything the teacher teaches because Miss Bathsheba is wise. It’s why her teacher lives in the Bathtub, not the city. She needs no levee to live. Education and wisdom are better, proved time and again by what Miss Bathsheba says and what Hushpuppy sees and confirms. Things make sense because Hushpuppy is here. Someday future scientists will know it too.

Papa Wink is not well. He has fits and delirium tremors. His heart is bad too because he drinks too much. He worries a lot and loses his temper often. He doesn’t laugh and smile. Hushpuppy looks at him in wonder sometimes because he doesn’t wonder about the stars and sky the way Miss Bathsheba does. In fact, one night during a violent rain storm he got angry at the storm and sky. He took his shotgun into the rain and pointed it at the sky and moon. Then he fired. Not once, but at least three times. Bang, bang, bang! The thunder was noisy, and so was Wink, her drunken, violent daddy.

Where is mama? Who knows? Hushpuppy thinks about her but can’t see a face or even hear a voice. Mama is a ghost, not a memory. Hushpuppy is haunted by her. Papa says Hushpuppy happened because papa loved mama. So Hushpuppy was made by love? Yes, she learns. And the cosmos? Must be the same, she reckons. Something or someone called God loves colours and beauty and grandeur. Like love, the cosmos is real. Hushpuppy knows it. Miss Bathsheba taught her it.

What happens when the storm comes, when the water rises? The people float, they survive like Noah and the animals did. But much of the world must die. Then, when the waters recede, the aurochs will come, just as Miss Bathsheba said they would. They are hungry and destructive. Frozen in the ice, they’ve been waiting a long time to eat. What happens when Hushpuppy meets the aurochs? Oh, you have to see this for yourself! It is called the climax.

None of us knows where the cosmos comes from. Some say a black hole, others from a multiverse, our cosmic mother. We want to know but can’t figure it out. We are too puny, too cerebrally feeble to know. If even Miss Bathsheba doesn’t know, how can we? Hushpuppy admits it.

But Hushpuppy knows some important things. For example, Hushpuppy exists. So does the earth. So does the sun and all the other suns. So does the cosmos. She watches it looking at her, the stars twinkling and winking at her. Is this why Daddy is named Wink? When he was young like Hushpuppy, did he think and see as she does? Did Wink know the universe was made for him too? Did his eyes shine as Hushpuppy’s do, reflecting the light of the stars back to themselves? Is that why they wink? Is that their signal to us, a signal that says, “I see you. I see your light or my own light shining back to me”? Who can say? Probably Miss Bathsheba knows.

Before the film ends Hushpuppy tells us this:

“When it all goes quiet behind my eyes, I see everything that made me flying around in invisible pieces. When I look too hard, it goes away. But when it all goes quiet, I see they are right here. I see that I’m a little piece of a big, big universe. And that makes things right.”

In its strange, offbeat, eccentric, amateurish, low budget, DIY, ramshackle way, the film is a masterpiece, proof that the art of cinema is not dead yet, not yet devoured by the aurochs we are bound to unleash on the world through our greed, arrogance and recklessness. Get yourself an ark and pray to the god of your choice as the waters rise.
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babelfish
5.0 out of 5 stars Ein kleines Juwel - keine Massenware!
Reviewed in Germany on October 9, 2016
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Der Film geht einen ganz eigenen Weg, um seine Geschichte zu erzählen und überdies Poesie
und Magie im Zuschauer zu erzeugen.
Anstatt mit Effekten zu protzen, bezaubern hier einzig und allein die Darsteller.
Speziell die beiden Hauptdarsteller, - Vater und Tochter -, brennen sich durch ihr Spiel ins Gedächtnis der Zuschauer.
Bemerkenswert, denn die beiden sind genauso Laienschausoieler wie der Rest der Besetzung.
Das Filmerlebnis wird dadurch aber in keinster weise geschmälert, - im Gegenteil!

Die "Originale" aus dem fiktiven Ort "Bathtube" sind allesamt sehens- und liebenswerte Gestalten, die trotz ihrer Armut
und ihren Beschränkungen am liebsten den ganzen Tag (- und die Nacht) feiern und nur soviel arbeiten,
wie es ihnen sinnvoll erscheint, damit es zum Überleben reicht.
Trotz dieser positiven Lebenseinstellung wird der Ort und seine Bewohner auf eine harte Probe gestellt,
als ein Hurrican heranzieht, der "Bathtube" zu überfluten droht.
Überdies stellt sich im Laufe des Films heraus, daß der allein erziehende Vater todkrank ist und nach
einer Möglichkeit sucht, seine Tochter nach seinem Tod versorgt zu wissen.
Diese Tochter, genannt "Hushpuppie", hat eine so starke Fantasie, daß weder sie noch der Zuschauer,
bei ihrem Handeln Wirklichkeit und Fiktion auseinanderhalten können.
Dies gibt dem Film eine magische Komponente, die sich als roter Faden von Anfang
bis zum Ende hindurchzieht.
Wenn der "Film-Vorhang" fällt, hat der unvoreingenomme Zuschauer eine Reise zurück in seine Kindheit gemacht,
- umso mehr und intensiver, je besser er sich noch an diese Kindheit erinnern kann.

An eine Zeit, in der ganz andere Dinge wichtig waren, als die ( - ach so ernsten Sachen) der Erwachsenen,
an eine Zeit, in der Probleme durch Fantasie gelöst wurden,
in der man nichts weiter brauchte als Freunde, sich selbst, eine große Portion Abenteuerlust
und Freude am Leben.
Also an eine Zeit, in der jeder Tag ein Fest war, - so wie in "Bathtube".

Obwohl dieser Film sehr unkonventionell ist und teilweise ein wenig "unlogisch" daherkommt,
ist er für mich ein echtes kleines Film-Juwel.
Trotzdem habe ich Verständnis, wenn jemand mit dem Film nichts anfangen kann
und deshalb schlecht bewertet.
(Das liegt dann aber definitiv nicht am Film, sondern an den vergessenen/fehlenden
Kindheitserinnerungen dieser Rezensenten, die es leider nicht mehr schaffen,
die Welt noch einmal mit "Kinderaugen" zu sehen ... - schade.).

"Beasts of the Southern Wild" hat mir persönlich sehr gut gefallen und
erhält deshalb meine uneingeschränkte 5-Sterne- Empfehlung.
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John Doe
5.0 out of 5 stars Ampliando filmografia
Reviewed in Spain on March 3, 2016
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Llevaba tiempo detrás de esta película y, la verdad, no me ha defraudado. Muy recomendable en todos sus aspectos (al menos para mí).
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M. jean ROUGER
5.0 out of 5 stars Un film splendide
Reviewed in France on December 6, 2013
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J'ai été bluffé ! Je me suis retrouvé jeune étudiant en Sorbonne, découvrant, dans les salles d'art et d'essai, les premiers films ethnographiques de Jean ROUCH. Un vrai plaisir.
La jeune actrice est renversante et le mélange de la réalité et de l'onirisme exprime bien le regard de l'enfance.
Je recommande très fort ce film.
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Marti
5.0 out of 5 stars One must keep an open mind to the scenes in this film.
Reviewed in Canada on November 18, 2020
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An eye opening account of life in the Southern wild!
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