Bone of Winter

This film is very heart-wrenching to watch. It feels a bit like a blind well, although the type is completely different, it is probably a reverie given to me by a similar background setting. The movie is very simple (and very short). It is about a 17-year-old girl REE raising her 12-year-old brother and 6-year-old sister and a mother with mental problems in the mountainous countryside of the United States in southern Missouri. The whole movie revolves around REE's journey to find their father, Jessup, who has been missing for a long time and was wanted by the police for drug production, but he did not appear in court on time after the bailout and disappeared. As the film unfolded, the audience learned that Jessup was not just a drug addict, he was part of the entire family business. The background of the withered, backward, and filthy America highlights that the crimes that have been born under the long-term poverty environment are entangled with the family’s ties and traditional favors. The story of REE is not only that she wants to get close to neighbors and relatives who are indistinguishable from good and evil, but also that she wants to find the way to the truth in the web of mutual concealment and ambiguous relationships.

But she has almost nothing. The only thing she has is irresistible determination and fearlessness.

The shaping of REE is the biggest success of this film. The little-known Jennifer Lawrence brought a restrained and determined mountain girl to the audience. An abnormal family makes an abnormal person. Chopping wood, hunting, doing housework, feeding horses, REE does everything. In an environment of near abject poverty, he would either follow the crowd or he would be very strong. When the police came to the door and said, "If your dad doesn't go to court next week, your house will have to be taken to mortgage bail", she replied: "I will find him." She said one by one. Let those relatives who are somewhat abnormal to inquire about the whereabouts of father. Being ridiculed, intimidated, or threatened can't change her mind. She neither pretended to bluff, nor looked forward to the mercy of others. "Don't ask for what's not offered" She warned her younger brother this way. She firmly believes that empathy and kinship are the only way for her to obtain the whereabouts of her father in this cold society, even if what awaits her is an end that may be equally gloomy.

The story of REE is not a typical case-solving story. The images of those relatives spread in public places where there are not many digits in the film. The people playing cards in the bar, the merchants on the auction floor, the unknown farmers, they are us. The restrained lens did not over-extend hostility and violence. This is still an acquaintance society based on blood and axioms. The secrets and speculations hidden in their hearts cannot be said, nor will they be written on their faces. There were several jumps in the plot in the film, which made me a little confused. After watching it, I thought about it and understood that the players in the game do not actually need to be broken. Instead, more space is left for the audience to strengthen the persuasiveness of this social relationship.

This film is typically well received but not popular. There are only more than 80 theaters in the United States showing this film. Rural themes also have no appeal? possible. The theme of rural America seems to be an unflattering topic, but in romantic comedies such as "Do You hear about Morgan's" or "Proposal" as a spiritual home or the opposite of a metropolis. Rarely has become a serious background in movies, "Bone of Winter" provides an unusual opportunity.

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