amerindie
Engaging film (sort of) with some serious problems. We follow a six year old girl who lives in the bayou country of the Louisiana delta...in a community of broken down shacks...scavenges for food...everybody is a drunkard (where do they get the money for all the booze?)...no mom...dad only yells, screams and hits...their lives are total squalor but we are supposed to believe that they're better off because they're independent and resourceful.
I dunno.
Pluses: the kid was great...a real find. Sound design and occasional visual interludes gave the film a broader scope that the filth and slime we're actually watching.
Minuses: everything else...including ultimately the giant tusked pigs that show up from time to time representing the kid's id or something but even with the scary sound look like a bunch of pigs.
I'm not sure what they were trying for here. I do know the happy-ending music and the image of the cast walking down a water-washed road toward ? struck me as idiotic.
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