Ozarks noir. What makes this so good is that it's structured like a detective story, and it doesn't cheat. We only learn what Ree, the seventeen year old protagonist, learns as she hunts down her missing father, a meth cooker in and out of jail. The story comes at us in incomplete pieces--no one suddenly explains everything, but each scene of the film builds on the last till we have as complete a picture as possible of what might have happened. Jennifer Lawrence is steely and unstoppable as Ree. I wouldn't change much about this movie but I would have loved to have seen it on film instead of digital video.
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Winter's Bone (2010)
Ozarks noir. What makes this so good is that it's structured like a detective story, and it doesn't cheat. We only learn what Ree, the seventeen year old protagonist, learns as she hunts down her missing father, a meth cooker in and out of jail. The story comes at us in incomplete pieces--no one suddenly explains everything, but each scene of the film builds on the last till we have as complete a picture as possible of what might have happened. Jennifer Lawrence is steely and unstoppable as Ree. I wouldn't change much about this movie but I would have loved to have seen it on film instead of digital video.
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