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. You can’t talk about Beasts of the Southern Wild and not talk about Hurricane Katrina. 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. Was it the voodoo? Beasts of the Southern Wild. 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. I adored Beasts of the Southern Wild and have seen it three times: each viewing a quick incursion into the southern surreal. I’m Forrest Brown, and you’re listening to Stories for Earth. And this is only one example of humanity’s ability to bounce back from major setbacks. It’s even how it’s supposed to be in nature. 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. “Of course your city was destroyed,” these people seemed to say. We’ve been doing this ever since we started walking upright. To this day, I don’t really know what exactly New Orleans was supposed to have done wrong. That’s it for our discussion of Beasts of the Southern Wild and climate change. Begin at the beginning…Make some light.” — Kate DiCamillo. 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. In some ways it feels as though the filmmakers, like Hushpuppy herself, wish to be shielded from the true culprits of the terrible event. That sense of adventure is palpable in each frame. Review. We see shots of Arctic ice sheets breaking off into the ocean, unleashing ancient pig-like beasts called aurochs and sending the Big One. One has a heart condition and one is slowly drowning. 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. 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. The shimmer of … The Big One is a powerful storm that will bring about the end of the world. In fact, many viewers might think he’s abusive. Nevertheless, one can say that Beasts of the Southern Wild is an expression of the desire within a certain layer of American artists to come to terms with aspects of contemporary social life, and that is something. The film enjoyed mostly positive reviews from critics and viewers alike, and it features an Oscar-nominated performance from Quvenzhané Wallis, who played Hushpuppy. 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. Wink was her father and the Bath Tub is her home. The storm essentially sat on the country for three days, killing 70 people and causing nearly 300 people to go missing. 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. But Wink loves Hushpuppy more than anything, and he’s hard on her because he’s afraid he won’t be around for long. Beasts of the Southern Wild, review. Their home was already destroyed by the hurricane, and even with the aurochs on their way, the people of the Bath Tub go back. Zeitlin co-founded Court 13 shortly after moving to New Orleans in 2008 to make his first short film, Glory at Sea. They actually lived the story of the movie. 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. During this plague outbreak, nearly 10,000 people died every day in Constantinople. But this is no reason to give up on them. 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. For the characters in the movie, Wink is a symbol of the Bath Tub—both he and the Bath Tub are dying. The hospital represents everything the Bathtub isn’t, and the Bathtub survivors have a hard time trying to adapt. We humans are a resilient bunch, and we’ve so far done a pretty good job of recovering from everything history has thrown our way. PG-13 | 1h 33min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy | 5 July 2012 (Russia) 1:58 | Trailer. 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. Everything is communal, people don’t shut themselves in. The film is a response to the hurricane, particularly to the way people from outside of the affected area reacted to it. 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. Hell, she goes back—everyone does, including the dying Wink. 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. 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 Bathtub is a sort of utopian anarchy. With temperatures soaring and the icecaps melting, Hushpuppy and the Bathtube community soon come to face to face with the very real possibility of leaving their beloved home and confront a race of prehistoric beasts called aurochs to take back … Hushpuppy lives with Wink in a trailer home on stilts, and when she’s not at school, she spends her time playing in the woods around their house and learning lessons from Wink. Even before the Black Death, a 6th-century plague pandemic called the Plague of Justinian killed nearly half of Europe’s population. God agreed to Abraham’s terms, but he still sent two angels to the cities to destroy them in the end. Thanks for listening. “You people were dumb enough to put it right in front of a hurricane.”. Director Benh Zeitlin co-wrote the screenplay with his screenwriter friend Lucy Alibar, basing the movie on Alibar’s play Juicy and Delicious. For her, it’s not a question. They have a tumultuous, even traumatizing relationship as father and daughter, but Hushpuppy still doesn’t leave him. Unable or unwilling at this point to envision a profound change in social realities, far too many filmmakers search out “communities” of one kind or another where the present conditions are supposedly made bearable by the intensity of the personal or social relationships. So it’s that parallel that inspired us to use the aurochs. "Beasts of the Southern Wild" has garnered much critical praise, but it offers a dangerous political message. Take, for example, the Black Death pandemic in Europe during the Middle Ages. Hushpuppy’s world is about to end because fossils come back to life. Beasts of the Southern Wild is a fairy tale about the end of the world. Her mother “swam away,” but is heard in whispery incantations from Hushpuppy’s intense fantasies. Please support our work by becoming a Patron today or by making a one-time donation here. "Beasts of the Southern Wild": A spectacular bayou folk tale Benh Zeitlin's gorgeous, crackpot fable of post-Katrina Louisiana is the year's must-see indie film For more information, see our Affiliate Disclosure. Resilience is not so uncommon. What Hushpuppy sees as coming to destroy her is literally what a caveman painted.”. Beasts of the Southern Wild is a 2012 film from director Benh Zeitlin and Court 13 Arts. According to Yale Climate Connections, the verdict is still out on whether or not climate change will cause more hurricanes, typhoons, and cyclones. A climactic scene in which Hushpuppy confronts the ancient Aurochs with the help of her little sisters suggests an alliance between humanity and nature can be possible only with the virtuous spirit of a nomadic children’s republic. Without meaning to, the artists thereby offer an apology for what exists. Originally released in New York and Los Angeles, the film was later sold to Fox Searchlight Pictures and distributed worldwide. The total cost of this disaster tallied up to $3.4 billion USD. The facts of economic and social disorder are hinted at in Beasts of the Southern Wild, but not explored in a way that critiques the circumstances surrounding the Katrina tragedy. And she sees herself as being in the same position as cavemen: We look back on them and understand them by their paintings. There are other issues. A creation of distinctly American design, Beasts of the Southern Wild disturbs and awes with fantastic images and the swelling music of a devastated region. This fact served as one of the main points of inspiration for the aurochs in Beasts of the Southern Wild.Director Benh Zeitlin said in an interview with Pop Omnivore that his idea to use aurochs came from cave paintings he’d seen in France of cavemen fighting them off. God was so mad at Sodom and Gomorrah that he even instructed Lot and his family not to look back as it was being destroyed. The performers’ chemistry on screen is genuine, guttural. The researchers who published this paper got kind of lucky. 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 blew audiences and critics away all over the world, and it’s easy to see why. Court 13 worked out of an abandoned gas station throughout production of the film, and they built all the sets for the Bathtub using found materials in the area. Don’t worry if you haven’t seen the movie before, as I’ll tell you everything you need to know about it for our discussion. Wink seems like a bad father at first. Visit our website at storiesforearth.com for transcripts of every episode as well as additional content, and become a patron at patreon.com/storiesforearth if you want to support further production of the show. Zeitlin continues: “The film is about how you survive and combat the loss of a place, the loss of a culture, and don’t let these things crush you. Directed by Benh Zeitlin, written by Zeitlin and Lucy Alibar. South: a scholary journal, Vol. 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. 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. 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. “Beasts of the Southern Wild” tracks a New Orleans father and daughter trying to survive after a nasty storm wipes out much of their neighborhood. 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. Benh Zeitlin is an American writer, director, and composer who is best known for his 2012 film Beasts of the Southern Wild. That’s how you survive all the tragedy that can drag you into a dark place.”. The brave men stay and watch it happen, they don’t run.”. The Bathtub is a sort of utopian anarchy. There is celebration when a baby is born and when someone dies and for the moments in between. “I didn’t want to make a political film or … This mythic tale about a coastal Louisiana community struggling to survive an … That isn’t to say recovering from Katrina was easy by any stretch of the imagination. “The Bathtub” is an off-the-grid flooded Delta community in Louisiana, isolated from the rest of civilization by a levee imposed by a vaguely glimpsed government. Hurricane Katrina was just one storm. 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? It was the same situation with New Orleans, supposedly. But one can long for the artist who truly puts his money where his mouth is. Today’s show is about the film Beasts of the Southern Wild. A lot of the Christians in my life growing up tried to compare the destruction of New Orleans to the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah in the Bible. 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. And maybe, if our convictions are strong enough, we can win. They were refugees—of course their mental health suffered. 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… 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. No. Why? One feels the collective’s urgency about the state of things, or at least the state of certain things. 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. These people had lost their homes and loved ones, and they had to go for stretches of time without knowing if they would have food or clean water. Zeitlin left this out of his interview, but I heard much worse reactions. Wink dies shortly before the aurochs leave, and Hushpuppy lights his funeral pyre. It’s about a giant group of us going and living the story, and out of it comes a movie.”. The survivors soon discover that the salty flood water has contaminated the Bathtub’s fresh water, so Wink and a few other men hatch a plan to blow up the levee separating the Bathtub from the mainland. 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. 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. In an interview, Henry said about that time, “Nobody didn’t have nothing to eat, nobody had no water. In October 2019, Zeitlin revealed work on his next feature-length film Wendy, a modern adaptation of Peter Pan by J.M. The performances by the largely non-professional cast are integral. International Committee of the Fourth International. Barrie. Beasts of the Southern Wild review: A Hurricane Katrina fantasy tale, set on the other side of the levees. 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 … Yet somehow, Europe made it through plague outbreaks like these, and the period of European history between about 900 and 1300 was “…one of the longest periods of sustained growth in human history,” according to The Great Courses Daily. For a country with a GDP of about $12 billion USD, this is an unfathomable cost to rebuild. It was something I didn’t want to do, but we had to.” Henry has no plans to pursue a career in acting. Lot’s wife famously looked back anyway, and God turned her into a pillar of salt for her disobedience. I suppose you could interpret this in a number of ways, but to me, aurochs have to represent fossil fuels. But something else happens here. They didn’t give up on their home just because a hurricane tried to blow it away. 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. As recently as October 2019, a typhoon hit the very same region, testing Japan’s resilience and recovery progress over the past eight years. Lloyd, C. "Creaturely, Throwaway Life after Katrina: Salvage the Bones and Beasts of the Southern Wild." Sound familiar? 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. We sort of reinterpreted that. A girl I went to school with even told me about her dad, a preacher, who spent an entire sermon series talking about why New Orleans got what was coming to them. So we broke the glass on the Family Dollar [store]. It has everything to do with love and with standing up for what’s right. In other words, after Hurricane Katrina, these people were never the same. But studies like this one are sadly rare. 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. I think back to March 2011 when a horrible earthquake and tsunami killed hundreds of people in Japan and nearly caused a nuclear meltdown. Perhaps you did too if you ever watched any Fox News around this time. Their paper started out as a study of low-income adults enrolled in community colleges around the US. We’re on Instagram and Twitter, and you can also support our show via Patreon with a recurring, monthly donation. This sort of work, unhappily, tends to make a virtue out of necessity. Article: “Louisiana’s Disappearing Coast“, Book: Chesapeake Requiem: A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island. She looks back. ‎Show Stories for Earth: Climate Change in Pop Culture, Ep S1 E4: Beasts of the Southern Wild, Hurricane Katrina, and Climate Change - Dec 24, 2019 ‎Beasts of the Southern Wild has a lot to teach us about responding to climate change. Light is precious in a world so dark. Director Benh Zeitlin's debut, which won the Camera d’Or at Cannes festival, plunges into magic realism with unmissable results, writes Tim Robey. The mothers’ mental health never really returned to baseline. Abraham lived elsewhere, so God sent the two angels to warn Abraham’s nephew Lot to evacuate along with his wife and daughters. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! There are lots of spoilers ahead. BZ: Yes, absolutely. A month before this typhoon hit Japan, Hurricane Dorian hit the Bahamas as a category 5 storm—the strongest category designation for hurricanes. There will be more to look forward to. This seems to trigger Wink’s heart condition, and he collapses on the ground, appearing to be dead. 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. Although “Beasts of the Southern Wild” never actually mentions Katrina, or the Ninth Ward, it’s clearly invoking that disaster, and identifying with the poorest of its victims. In just four years, the Black Death killed about 25 million people, nearly a third of Europe’s population in the 14th century. Beasts Of The Southern Wild never fully chooses between those options, but it isn’t really in the question-answering business. For a transcript of today’s show, further recommended reading and viewing, articles, and more, visit our website at storiesforearth.com. 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. Everybody went in, got clothes, got water. 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. Everything climate change in pop culture. We is who the earth is for.”. Beasts of the Southern Wild Wade Forth Through the Mire The Gulf coast's most telling cinematic narrative to wash ashore since the Katrina tragedy By Rex Reed • 06/26/12 5:09pm The production design is uniquely organic and there is an appealing density to the imagery. She went on to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress after the film’s release, making her the youngest person ever to be nominated in that category. I could keep listing examples, but the bottom line is this: we are hard to kill. Hushpuppy teaches us that we can stand up to such agents of chaos. Henry, the owner of a bakery in New Orleans’ Seventh Ward, was cast in the role of Wink when his story about staying behind after Hurricane Katrina captivated the filmmakers. The force of nature, a storm that threatens to ravage their community, is opposed with the force of imagination and individual determination. Imagine how other natural disasters around the world might be affecting people there. Throughout the movie, Wink’s health gradually deteriorates. Regardless of whether you’ve seen the movie or not, I hope you enjoy today’s show. The spill accelerated the rate of change. Originally from Atlanta, he lives in Nashville with his wife and cat. 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. Within the bubble, everything is totally interdependent. The filmmakers call themselves "Court 13" and are the first credited at the end of the film. For Hushpuppy, it’s simply the right thing to do. Click “support us on Patreon” from our website, or visit patreon.com/storiesforearth to become a patron. Five years old! 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. ‘How are people going to look back on my civilization?’ she wonders. Benh Zeitlin’s debut feature film Beasts of the Southern Wild is nothing if not original. But director Benh Zeitlin insists his film isn’t connected to Hurricane Katrina. 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. And the Big One definitely comes. 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. 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. 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. 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. Doing so will help us reach more listeners who could benefit from our message. But those who did go back helped rebuild their city, and today, New Orleans is doing okay. Zeitlin said: “The young girl in the film, Hushpuppy, sees herself as the last of her kind, on the verge of extinction. 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. I remember hearing these takes too. First-time director Benh Zeitlin took more risks than an artist rightly should in bringing “Beasts of the Southern Wild” to life. 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. BeastsOfThe Southern Wild. I don’t know if it gets more authentic than that. Life and death are two sides of the same coin, but in the case of drilling for oil, it’s better that some things remain dead. If you buy something on Bookshop.org using any of our affiliate links below, we may earn a small commission, at no extra cost to you. And what did they find? Forrest Brown is a writer and the creator of Stories for Earth. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. They seemed totally immersed in the process, but they’re hardly the only ones. The people who live there are whimsical and free, and they all take care of each other for the greater good of the community. 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 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. The Big One or God or climate change or whatever you want to call it destroys the Bath Tub, and what does Hushpuppy do? If she fails, they will be condemned to return to land and live in a shelter. The partying and gambling on Bourbon Street? In a small bayou community in southern Louisiana called the “Bathtub”, lives six-year-old Hushpuppy and her tough-loving father, Wink. Wink regains consciousness just before the storm hits and gets Hushpuppy to safety, but not everyone is so lucky. They found post-Katrina locations in the ravaged bayous of Louisiana, and constructed on a small budget their convincing and meticulously detailed settlement. “Stories are light. The film plunges the audience into an autonomous zone that is at once garish and dazzling, repulsive and magical. 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.”. A lot of the people who were lucky enough to evacuate, maybe most of them, went back. Every location that I shot is gone. The large queer community? "Beasts" is a first feature by Benh Zeitlin, based on a screenplay and stage play by his collaborator, Lucy Alibar. Aurochs weren’t just made up for the movie—they were once real animals until they went extinct about 500 years ago. I honestly don’t really care to hear about it. 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