Grannick places Ree in the prospect of the "Ozarks Mountains" famous for the family's clan-style drug dealers, which means Ree Not only have to contend with the cold and huge "drug network", but also face the family test of "blood is thicker than water". In the wild land, Ree's fate is decided by countless pairs of hands. Neither her father's brother "Teardrop", partner Arthur Jr. or various cousins could give the answer Ree wanted. When threats, deception and violence ensued, the only thing Ree could be sure of was her father. have been killed. "Live to see people, die to see corpses" has become the only belief that Ree insists on.
The whole film takes Ree's perspective as the main line, and the father's whereabouts and death are the hidden lines of the story, which have been driving the development of the plot. The feminist film Grannick sees from Ree's perspective arranges every family in each family. The female characters who come forward, either act as umbrellas, followers or accomplices or even thugs for the male characters hidden in the background. In the end, the outburst of compassion and the help in everyday life are all done by female characters, and the male is either absent (Ree's father) or incompetent (Ree's uncle teardrop knows the truth of his father's murder and tries to hide it, and even Intimidate Ree to stop the search, and with Ree's unstoppable persistence, complete the self-salvation of silence - protection - counterattack, Ree as a woman is the source of redemption) or indifference (Ree asked a married old friend to borrow a truck to find his father , the friend's husband indifferently refused. Afterwards, the friend stole the car to help Ree, women are more sympathetic) or weak (Ree's brother tried to protect his sister and was reprimanded and silenced, no one could protect the weak Ree) , Going back to Ree herself, she never played a sympathetic and weak role in the whole incident. She was looking for her father loudly rather than begging them to give her father's whereabouts. The camera always kept a distance from the characters and alienated the audience from the heroine. The substituting psychological identity, in terms of characterization and plot development, avoids placing Ree in a position of sympathy. She just calmly faces fate and is always ready to fight back. Ree's weakness has never been shown in front of male characters. She spat on her cousin who was trying to deceive her father's death. In front of the police officer, she promised to find her father. Only in front of her mother, she begged her to help her once. , just this time. The truth that the patriarchal world is trying to cover up: they hate her father for whistleblowing to the police officer, and killing him is just "I don't care how my father died, who killed him, what happened, I just want to keep our house." Between the lives lost and the ones to live on, the strong Ree chose the latter.
The environmental background of "Winter", as an indifferent "bystander", witnessed Ree struggling to find his father in the wasteland, which not only gave Ree the cold body, but also made her feel the piercing ice of human feelings, and the long-term poverty life gave birth to The sins of the Ozarks dormant in the seemingly peaceful days in the mountains of the Ozarks, the savage landscape of winter, the barrenness of the land, the uncivilized more than the land? Fortunately, the warm winter sun shines on Ree's resolute face, and she wants to take her father "home" in her own way.
With the help of many female relatives, Ree found his father's corpse in the icy river, and endured the grief in his heart to saw off his father's hands. ——You must cut off her father's "hands" so that Ree can survive, and she must lose the protection of the male world before women can be born again. In the wild and rough southern countryside of the United States, the winter of humanity can never cover the radiant light of women.
Note: "Winter's Bone" won the American Independent Film Award in 2010, the Sundance Film Festival, the Berlin Film Festival, etc. Various awards, actress Jennifer Lawrence has won a number of film festivals. Another realistic rural film by Debra Granick. (This article was published on the sixth edition of Yizhuang News on November 11)
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