Perseverance wrapped in cold

Grayce 2022-03-24 09:01:44

Winter's Bones - The title is exactly the same as the theme, the picture is cold and rough, and the tone is single and gloomy. It was as if the whole world was immersed in a breathless gray sky. The child's innocence and precocious puberty, the girl's perseverance and stubbornness, the man's vague and gloomy face, and the woman's wandering attitude. Some people raise the story to the awakening of feminism, which is a bit exaggerated, but the details in the film are connected together, but it really reveals such a moral.

A country folk song sung by itself at the beginning of the film fits very well with the cold and silent picture. I have to say that 19-year-old Jennifer Lawrence is really beautiful. Even if she is stained with blood, her eyes are still so firm and unyielding. Even if he was forced to a dead end by fate, he did not bow his head and struggled hard. The perspective of a female director integrates the microcosm of many people's lives into this role, so I prefer to attribute her precocious and over-aged acting skills to "true performance".

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Winter's Bone quotes

  • Gail: [after asking her husband to let her use his truck] He said no.

    Ree: Did you tell him I'd spring for gas?

    Gail: I told him. He still won't.

    Ree: Why not?

    Gail: He never says why not to me, Ree, he just says no.

    Ree: Man, it's so sad to hear you say he won't let you do somethin' and then you *don't* do it.

    Gail: It's different once you're married.

    Ree: It really must be. 'Cause you ain't never used to eat no shit.

  • Ree: He might be hangin' around with Little Arthur and them. You think?

    Teardrop: You don't wanna go around Little Arthur's askin' them people about anything they ain't offered to talk about. That's a real good way to end up et by hogs... or wishin' you was.