Movie Review: "Beasts of the Southern Wild"

ALPHA OMEGA ARTS
By Ernest O. Britton

Sometimes miraculous films come into being, and they take you places you never imagined possible. That's the experience of "Beasts of the Southern Wild," starring Academy Awards' Best Actress nominee Quvenzhane Wallis. Rich with allegories for anything you want, it's a little girl's tale of living in "The Bathtub" a surreal place along the southern rim of Louisiana where a small community of self-reliant people live together, survive hurricanes together, and prepare for the storms of the future. It is full of quotable lines by Willis, including this concluding quote: "When I die, the scientists of the future, they're gonna find it all. They gonna know, once there was a Hushpuppy, and she live with her daddy in the Bathtub." (4 "perfect" Stars: ★★★★)