Wink dies shortly before the aurochs leave, and Hushpuppy lights his funeral pyre. The total cost of this disaster tallied up to $3.4 billion USD. If she fails, they will be condemned to return to land and live in a shelter. In other words, after Hurricane Katrina, these people were never the same. I don’t know if it gets more authentic than that. Hell, she goes back—everyone does, including the dying Wink. In fact, many viewers might think he’s abusive. In October 2019, Zeitlin revealed work on his next feature-length film Wendy, a modern adaptation of Peter Pan by J.M. For her, it’s not a question. Take, for example, the Black Death pandemic in Europe during the Middle Ages. As serious politics argue over the inequality of American incomes, it’s a dangerous time to make heroes out of the poor, but Beasts of the Southern Wild, a break-through indie movie directed by Benh Zeitlin, does just that. They were also scattered across 23 states immediately after the hurricane. Wink gets surgery to try to fix his heart condition, but at the first chance, he breaks out and frees the others so they can escape. First-time director Benh Zeitlin took more risks than an artist rightly should in bringing “Beasts of the Southern Wild” to life. In my life, movies aside, I want to be on boats with my friends, I want to be on frontier locations at the edge of the earth and with film you get to go on that adventure. For more information, see our Affiliate Disclosure. The film was shot on 16mm film, and director Benh Zeitlin created the production with a small professional crew and dozens of local residents in and around Montegut, Louisiana. They were refugees—of course their mental health suffered. In a forgotten but defiant bayou community cut off from the rest of the world by a sprawling levee, a six-year-old girl exists on the brink of orphanhood. In fact, we nearly went extinct in the year 70,000 B.C. The large queer community? Their home was already destroyed by the hurricane, and even with the aurochs on their way, the people of the Bath Tub go back. And just like Hushpuppy loved her dying father and refused to give up on him, these people love where they’re from even while the ocean slowly takes it back. BeastsOfThe Southern Wild. In this pirate utopia lives Hushpuppy (Quvenzhane Wallis), a six-year-old who fashions her house out of a ruined trailer and eats cat food. That isn’t to say recovering from Katrina was easy by any stretch of the imagination. If you’d rather find out for yourself, stop the podcast right now, go watch the movie, and come back when you’re done. Tellingly, the film is produced by Court 13, a New Orleans-based “grassroots filmmaking army.” Its manifesto expresses a desire to “make films about communities, as a community,” and values “do it yourself” (filmmaking), not as a matter of financial circumstance, but as a spiritual requirement.” Zeitlin, the film’s director, a Queens, New York native and Wesleyan University graduate, co-founded the collective in 2004. But the film also contains more unfortunate strands from 1997’s Gummo (Harmony Korine) in its drunken fascination with American depredation—a theme that presents Herculean dramatic challenges for contemporary artists (when the subject is treated at all). Five years old! after the eruption of the supervolcano Toba. It’s a secluded and wild place on the frontlines of sea level rise, separated from the rest of civilization by a massive levee that holds back the encroaching salt water. Faced with both her hot-tempered father's fading health and melting ice-caps that flood her ramshackle bayou community and unleash ancient aurochs, six-year-old Hushpuppy must learn the ways of courage and love. "Beasts of the Southern Wild" has garnered much critical praise, but it offers a dangerous political message. The storm essentially sat on the country for three days, killing 70 people and causing nearly 300 people to go missing. But does Hushpuppy give up on him? People would say things like, “That’s what you get when you build a city below sea level.” It was like they were blaming the people of New Orleans for what happened to them. Please support our work by becoming a Patron today or by making a one-time donation here. This way of creating collaboratively worked better in New Orleans than in any other city, according to Zeitlin, which makes sense to me based off what I think I know about New Orleans. I’m Forrest Brown, and you’re listening to Stories for Earth. Dwight Henry owned a bakery in New Orleans before playing the role of Wink, and the unforgettable Quvenzhané Wallis was only five years old when she auditioned to play Hushpuppy. This seems to trigger Wink’s heart condition, and he collapses on the ground, appearing to be dead. You can’t talk about Beasts of the Southern Wild and not talk about Hurricane Katrina. “Of course your city was destroyed,” these people seemed to say. Parents need to know that Beasts of the Southern Wild is a heart-wrenching fable that's so unique that it's hard to classify. Released in 2012, it realistically depicts the harshness and vulnerability of southern Louisiana poverty through the magical lens of imagination and a refreshing respect for folk … They knew what it was like to almost have their home completely annihilated yet choose to rebuild it and stay anyway. Beasts of the Southern Wild: One of the Year’s Best Films Must-See Film Sundance darling ‘Beasts of the Southern Wild,’ out June 27, is one of the year’s best, says Marlow Stern. They know what it’s like to go on the roof to escape hurricane flood waters. Beasts of the Southern Wild Benh Zeitlin's stunning debut finds its dandelion-haired heroine fighting rising tides and fantastic creatures in a mythic battle against modernity. It is up to Hushpuppy to use the survival skills he imparted to her to save him and the life they hold dear. Beasts of the Southern Wild was not made the way most Hollywood films are made. Shots are literally teeming with life, both human and otherwise. Beasts of the Southern Wild, review. The force of nature, a storm that threatens to ravage their community, is opposed with the force of imagination and individual determination. She’s brave and defiant, and she tells the aurochs, “I have to look after my own.” They seem to understand her somehow, and they turn around to leave. For Hushpuppy, it’s simply the right thing to do. The film enjoyed mostly positive reviews from critics and viewers alike, and it features an Oscar-nominated performance from Quvenzhané Wallis, who played Hushpuppy. It's a drama about an alcoholic father who means well but has few tools to convey his love to his spitfire 6-year-old daughter. Above all else, this film is a love letter to the joyful, resilient people of southern Louisiana and to the home they hold so dear. There are other issues. BZ: Yes, absolutely. Welcome to Stories for Earth, a climate change podcast about stories that can teach us lessons of resilience for fighting the climate crisis. We see shots of Arctic ice sheets breaking off into the ocean, unleashing ancient pig-like beasts called aurochs and sending the Big One. Click “support us on Patreon” from our website, or visit patreon.com/storiesforearth to become a patron. Her mother “swam away,” but is heard in whispery incantations from Hushpuppy’s intense fantasies. Doing so will help us reach more listeners who could benefit from our message. This sort of work, unhappily, tends to make a virtue out of necessity. But those who did go back helped rebuild their city, and today, New Orleans is doing okay. Their paper started out as a study of low-income adults enrolled in community colleges around the US. An end-of-the-world film in reverse, Beasts of the Southern Wild begins with the aftermath of the deluge, the members of its community rising to the challenge by dint of their idiosyncratic nature and personal rebellion against the status quo. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! Beasts of the Southern Wild is the story of Hushpuppy, a little girl who lives with her father Wink in a fictional southern Louisiana town called the Bathtub. It’s a secluded and wild place on the frontlines of sea level rise, separated from the rest of civilization by a massive levee that holds back the encroaching salt water. This fulfills something Hushpuppy said earlier in the movie: “Everybody loses the thing that made them. The shimmer of … Article: “Louisiana’s Disappearing Coast“, Book: Chesapeake Requiem: A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island. A lot of the people who were lucky enough to evacuate, maybe most of them, went back. They have a tumultuous, even traumatizing relationship as father and daughter, but Hushpuppy still doesn’t leave him. None of the actors you see in the movie were professionals—they’re real members of the community in Louisiana, which actually makes them better than professionals. The spill accelerated the rate of change. And this is only one example of humanity’s ability to bounce back from major setbacks. Zeitlin calls Court 13’s approach to filmmaking “community-based,” and he uses words like “utopia” when describing how they work together. The movie never says what it is, but Wink seems to have some sort of heart problem that causes him a lot of pain and even makes him pass out from time to time. “The brave men stay and watch it happen, they don’t run.”. He’s worried about what will happen to Hushpuppy when he dies, and he especially wants to train her for what Hushpuppy calls “the Big One.”. Commenting on the impact of the BP spill on the locations and residents during filming, Zeitlin said: “We thought, ‘We are actually going to capture the last images of this town.’ It made me feel a sacredness to what we were doing. Regardless of whether you’ve seen the movie or not, I hope you enjoy today’s show. “You people were dumb enough to put it right in front of a hurricane.”. Every location that I shot is gone. Of course, this is intricately tied up with contradictions in the commercial film industry as a whole. “I didn’t want to make a political film or … In the extraordinary, strikingly original post-Katrina fable Beasts of the Southern Wild, acting novice Quvenzhané Wallis (all of … The film is a response to the hurricane, particularly to the way people from outside of the affected area reacted to it. But Beasts of the Southern Wild is a direct rebuttal to that line of thinking, in my mind. 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Jun 27, 2012 11:13 am Now that “ Beasts of the Southern Wild ” is far from the protective, progressive bubble of Sundance and venturing out into the wide, wide world of … But this is no reason to give up on them. They didn’t give up on their home just because a hurricane tried to blow it away. A film that depicts poverty with such imaginative zeal, but does not also encourage outrage or trace out its origins, is troubling to say the least. In one of the final scenes, we see Hushpuppy marching down the beach in a sort of rag-tag parade with the other residents of the Bathtub, boldly meeting her future and reclaiming her home. In the play that the film is based on [Juicy and Delicious by Lucy Alibar, who co-wrote Beasts of the Southern Wild with Zeitlin], the teacher refers specifically to Lascaux as she teaches a lesson about cave paintings. Zeitlin co-founded Court 13 shortly after moving to New Orleans in 2008 to make his first short film, Glory at Sea. Everybody went in, got clothes, got water. Review. Resilience is not so uncommon. Wink regains consciousness just before the storm hits and gets Hushpuppy to safety, but not everyone is so lucky. I suppose you could interpret this in a number of ways, but to me, aurochs have to represent fossil fuels. The mothers’ mental health never really returned to baseline. Using a magical-realist lens to capture a child’s perception of a chaotic world, the film attempts to tackle a painful reality through the precarious understanding of an innocent. The filmmakers call themselves "Court 13" and are the first credited at the end of the film. A month before this typhoon hit Japan, Hurricane Dorian hit the Bahamas as a category 5 storm—the strongest category designation for hurricanes. Christian Toto 7 Dec 2012. The people who live there are whimsical and free, and they all take care of each other for the greater good of the community. The hospital represents everything the Bathtub isn’t, and the Bathtub survivors have a hard time trying to adapt. The Bathtub is a sort of utopian anarchy. Imagine how other natural disasters around the world might be affecting people there. It’s even how it’s supposed to be in nature. And maybe, if our convictions are strong enough, we can win. Benh Zeitlin’s debut feature film Beasts of the Southern Wild is nothing if not original. To shoot his pre- Beasts short film, 2008’s Glory at Sea, he moved to New Orleans nine months after Katrina and maxed out his credit cards to the tune of … The film soars with overwhelming pictures and writing that veers between the sensitive and bombastic, and in the process muddles the serious themes it treats. But studies like this one are sadly rare. 3 VIDEOS | 121 IMAGES. Zeitlin said: “The young girl in the film, Hushpuppy, sees herself as the last of her kind, on the verge of extinction. The production design is uniquely organic and there is an appealing density to the imagery. Beasts of the Southern Wild is a vividly poetic and maybe even therapeutic response to one of the most painful and mortifying episodes in modern American history, second only to 9/11. Within the bubble, everything is totally interdependent. Beasts of the Southern Wild is the story of Hushpuppy, a little girl who lives with her father Wink in a fictional southern Louisiana town called the Bathtub. For a country with a GDP of about $12 billion USD, this is an unfathomable cost to rebuild. Beasts of the Southern Wild is a work of fantastical realism: The Bathtub isn’t a real place, according to director Benh Zeitlin, but it feels like it could be—a region near New Orleans outside the levy walls. A creation of distinctly American design, Beasts of the Southern Wild, directed by Benh Zeitlin (born 1982), disturbs and awes with fantastic images and the swelling music of a devastated post-Katrina Louisiana. Be sure to hit subscribe if you enjoyed today’s show, and leave us a nice review on Apple Podcasts if you feel so inclined. But something else happens here. Beasts of the Southern Wild review: A Hurricane Katrina fantasy tale, set on the other side of the levees. Abraham lived elsewhere, so God sent the two angels to warn Abraham’s nephew Lot to evacuate along with his wife and daughters. This is the story from the book of Genesis, chapters 18 and 19 in the Old Testament in which God destroys the ancient cities of Sodom and Gomorrah with fire and brimstone because the cities were so wicked. God agreed to Abraham’s terms, but he still sent two angels to the cities to destroy them in the end. These storms will be beastly—pun intended—and we should be putting in work now to develop the emotional resilience we’ll need to face them head-on and recover from them afterwards. Beasts of a Southern Wild is able to merge a child's world with that of an adult; to make us see how the effects of global warming will challenge the lives of many; it is a comment and a reminder of Katrina, its victims and consequences; finally it is a poetic way of describing the world and its inhabitants, escaping the ugliness and despair of certain realities by converting it into hope, survival and beauty. within the prevailing set-up, why does the latter need to be done away with? The contrast of scenes of the humid textures of the South with inserts of the polar icecaps melting into the sea is visually arresting. Beasts Of The Southern Wild never fully chooses between those options, but it isn’t really in the question-answering business. Zeitlin left this out of his interview, but I heard much worse reactions. Lot’s wife famously looked back anyway, and God turned her into a pillar of salt for her disobedience. Wink and his friends build a pipe bomb and successfully destroy the levee, draining the Bathtub just before FEMA comes to force everyone to evacuate to a hospital on the mainland. Everything is communal, people don’t shut themselves in. ... Beasts Of The Southern Wild Benh Zeitlin Katrina La Review Of Books New Orleans. Abraham, an Old Testament patriarch, begged God not to destroy the cities if he was able to find even ten good people there. Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window), Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window), Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window), Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window), What is Climate Fiction? Originally released in New York and Los Angeles, the film was later sold to Fox Searchlight Pictures and distributed worldwide. That’s how you survive all the tragedy that can drag you into a dark place.”. Director Benh Zeitlin's debut, which won the Camera d’Or at Cannes festival, plunges into magic realism with unmissable results, writes Tim Robey. Shot on a shoestring, Beasts is some kind of miracle, a tribute to the people who stay rooted to home against flood and forced evacuation. And she sees herself as being in the same position as cavemen: We look back on them and understand them by their paintings. Aurochs weren’t just made up for the movie—they were once real animals until they went extinct about 500 years ago. Sound familiar? But one can long for the artist who truly puts his money where his mouth is. This mythic tale about a coastal Louisiana community struggling to survive an … Born in New York City and raised in various boroughs and suburbs, Zeitlin is a graduate of Wesleyan University in Connecticut and a co-founder of Court 13 Arts, a “…film and multi-disciplinary arts organization” that works to advance filmmaking in New Orleans, Louisiana. It was the same situation with New Orleans, supposedly. In 2010, a group of researchers from Princeton University, Washington State University, the University of Massachusetts in Boston, and Harvard University published a paper about the long term mental health effects of Hurricane Katrina on 532 low-income mothers in the New Orleans area. One of these involves the Aurochs, a race of giant boars that are to be released into the world once the polar ice caps have melted. Even as Wink’s funeral pyre goes up in flames and the Bath Tub lies in ruins, Hushpuppy confronts the aurochs to defend her people. Once they arrive back in the Bathtub, Hushpuppy must confront the aurochs before they trample over everything. We’re on Instagram and Twitter, and you can also support our show via Patreon with a recurring, monthly donation. According to Yale Climate Connections, the verdict is still out on whether or not climate change will cause more hurricanes, typhoons, and cyclones. The Big One is a powerful storm that will bring about the end of the world. Beasts of the Southern Wild, a deliciously dreamy tale about a fictional Bayou community in the backwaters of Louisiana, does not so much jump off the screen as float effortlessly off it. Why? They found post-Katrina locations in the ravaged bayous of Louisiana, and constructed on a small budget their convincing and meticulously detailed settlement. Even before the Black Death, a 6th-century plague pandemic called the Plague of Justinian killed nearly half of Europe’s population. The Bathtub is a sort of utopian anarchy. 'Beasts of the Southern Wild' DVD Review: Katrina-esque Storm Leaves Stirring Drama in Wake. It just so happened that three of those colleges were in New Orleans, and the researchers had the good sense to draw the study out even longer to fill a knowledge gap in what we know about the mental health impacts of natural disasters. They play music and set off displays of fireworks; children are reared communally. I’ve unfortunately never been. Lloyd, C. "Creaturely, Throwaway Life after Katrina: Salvage the Bones and Beasts of the Southern Wild." Hurricane Katrina was just one storm. The Big One or God or climate change or whatever you want to call it destroys the Bath Tub, and what does Hushpuppy do? Directed by Benh Zeitlin, written by Zeitlin and Lucy Alibar. I’ve heard people describe the ones who didn’t go back as some of the first climate refugees in America. What Hushpuppy sees as coming to destroy her is literally what a caveman painted.”. He threatens, screams, and shouts at Hushpuppy, and he lets them both live in nothing short of squalor. Beasts of the Southern Wild is a fairy tale about the end of the world. And what did they find? PG-13 | 1h 33min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy | 5 July 2012 (Russia) 1:58 | Trailer. At her audition, Quvenzhané Wallis(who was five years old, though the casting call had been for girls between six and nine) impressed the filmmakers with her reading ability, tremendous scream, and ability to burp on command, all of which ar… Director Benh Zeitlin co-wrote the screenplay with his screenwriter friend Lucy Alibar, basing the movie on Alibar’s play Juicy and Delicious. She looks back. "Beasts" is a first feature by Benh Zeitlin, based on a screenplay and stage play by his collaborator, Lucy Alibar. Yeasts of the Southern Wild Sprawling on the edge of a levee along a deadened twist of the Lower Mississippi is a compound that, from 1894 to 1999, was the only leprosy hospital on the U.S. mainland. It’s the same story for the people of New Orleans and southern Louisiana in general. While the researchers saw the worst effects on mental health during the first 11 months after the hurricane, many more people suffered for years afterward. In just four years, the Black Death killed about 25 million people, nearly a third of Europe’s population in the 14th century. ‘How are people going to look back on my civilization?’ she wonders. Hushpuppy’s world is about to end because fossils come back to life. Stories for Earth relies on contributions from our listeners and readers to produce high quality, in-depth content. When I watched interviews with members of Court 13 to prepare for this episode, I got the sense that they were just as much a crew of pirates as they were a crew of filmmakers. It’s about a giant group of us going and living the story, and out of it comes a movie.”. Director Benh Zeitlin and his production studio, Court 13, made the entire movie in a southern Louisiana town called Montegut, of the quickly eroding Terrebonne Parish. We sort of reinterpreted that. No. Given the privileged pedigree of most of the crew and their interactions with the local cast, one has to wonder if the making of the film might not have produced a more complex, challenging commentary about America and its socio-cultural decay. There is celebration when a baby is born and when someone dies and for the moments in between. The researchers started surveying people in 2003, two years before the storm hit in August 2005, and they followed the same people for nearly five years after the hurricane. International Committee of the Fourth International. Was it the voodoo? We’ve been doing this ever since we started walking upright. What the citizens of the Bathtub want is not to rejoin the ways of the modern world “outside the bubble,” but to remain within the non-hierarchal, hunter-gatherer confines of the tribe. Four years after the storm, about 33 percent of the mothers still showed signs of post-traumatic stress disorder, and another 30 percent suffered from psychological distress. The brave men stay and watch it happen, they don’t run.”. Zeitlin says the time, too, is uncertain, though others suggest the events here take place around the time of Hurricane Katrina. In some ways it feels as though the filmmakers, like Hushpuppy herself, wish to be shielded from the true culprits of the terrible event. There is a trace of Terrence Malick’s Days of Heaven (1978), specifically that film’s lyrical narration by a young Linda Manz, in the mellifluous performance of child performer Wallis. Beasts of the Southern Wild blew audiences and critics away all over the world, and it’s easy to see why. Beasts of the Southern Wild. But for now, scientists feel confident that climate change will make hurricanes that send more rain and cause more destruction. Thanks for listening. Everything climate change in pop culture. Like the Horsemen of the Apocalypse bringing pestilence, war, famine and death, the four creatures are seen throughout the film charging closer to Hushpuppy as her father’s health, and her world, slips away. In the morning, once the storm has subsided, Wink and Hushpuppy survey the flood damage from their makeshift boat made of an old truck bed with an outboard motor. Today’s show is about the film Beasts of the Southern Wild. Wink was her father and the Bath Tub is her home. If you’re looking for a metaphor to represent the beasts we face today in the climate crisis, I can’t think of a better one than aurochs. 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