Something So Broken: What’s Frightening About Beasts of the Southern Wild
…n the morning and check the oil and it would get closer and closer… it was really eerie.” Zeitlin’s commentary aside, Beasts depicts coastal Louisiana’s environmental and cultural endangerment in ways that transcend scientific studies and government policies, while at the same time reaching national and international audiences. The film’s attraction is its story, its characters, and its aesthetic. Its success has everything to do with Court 13’s j…
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