As for the seventeen-year-old girl, she had to wrap her father's arms in a plastic bag, and she sat at the door of the police station early in the morning and waited, and then she lied that it was picked up at the door of the house, as if it were just a pure accident. All this is just in exchange for the ownership of her old house, or in other words, so that her crazy mother and young siblings can keep the final bottom line of survival.
Debra Granick’s "Winter Bones" tells a truly black story. When a vulnerable individual wants to defend his only family property to the death, he must pay an unimaginable price; while the girl at the bottom is alone against the huge The darkness, how tough will it have?
After winning the Sundance Best Director Award for "Deep Bone Marrow" in 2004, this 47-year-old female director continues her passion for niche themes in this same "bone-related" film. The bottom, drugs, hopeless family, indifferent affection and strong women, and, unsurprisingly, maintains her consistent level of "records"-it will not cause big storms in major film festivals, but it is definitely not to be ignored strength.
As a result, just this year, this slightly "dark" and "out-of-time" movie has once again become a hot dark horse with its unique vision and rough style. It has not only won the Berlin International Film Festival CICAE Award and Youth The Cinema Jury Award is the winner of the Sundance Film Festival’s Jury Award and Screenwriting Award, and it is predicted to win the Oscar next year.
It has to be said that Debra Grannick, a graduate of the New York Film Academy, is a rare director who has a good sense of topic selection and can properly blend with his personal style. With Sundance in recent years, The more he focused his attention on poverty, disadvantaged individuals, and the flaws of public power, at this time, adapting Daniel Woodrell’s original novel into a screenplay became a very clever choice: first, returning to the ancient form. "Primitive Folk Songs" is based on the competition of "good and evil" in human nature; secondly, it opens a personal heroic adventure for the weak.
It's just that this time the "hero" is a 17-year-old girl who grew up in the barren Ozark Mountains of Missouri. She is unsmiling, quiet, decisive, without ethics, dirty mouth, and nothing flashes in her eyes. It was the vigilant light like a wild animal, and at first glance it looked a bit like the "tough guy" Grint Eastwood.
Jennifer Lawrence, the actor of the heroine, can definitely be unique and become a powerful backbone of the film. She not only accurately captures the tough and cold temperament of this underage country girl, but also expands the deep soul of the underage country girl. The sturdy place. Her performance was commented by foreign media as "completely mature and composed, reminiscent of Judy Foster when she was young", and it is reported that she is expected to win the Oscar heroine.
In general, as a Gothic thriller with a southern atmosphere, the cruelty of "Winter Bones" is hidden under its trivial and plain reality presentation, and its vision goes far beyond a bottom layer. The misfortune of the family, or the tenacious spirit of a woman-this is really a masterpiece with far-reaching meaning and conciseness. The poor realism, permeating expressionism and crude naturalism in the film, and the fusion of various styles and textures, make it worthy of an excellent personal film.
From this point of view, its award at Sundance is well-deserved of its name, as if a reckless soul is no longer concealed, but is embedded on a throne "named independently".
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