Beasts of the Southern Wild (12A)

Mesmerizingly gorgeous film about everything that's important in the world. Belonging, Connection, family, the environment, loss and resilience. All from the perspective of a five year old girl named Hushpuppy. This film manages to create a allegorical modern fairytail that has the timelessness of a Grimms tale and the resonance and psychoanalytic understanding of Maurice Sendak's 'where the wild things are'. Suffice to say I loved it.

terrible film , boring over rated and selfbasorbed . my friend didnt like it weither

I can understand the polarised (bit of an accidental pun there) reviews. But whatever your taste or your views on global warming etc you cannot but admire the main performances (Tatum O Neil's 'youngest Oscar winner' is in danger ) the direction and the poetry of the piece. That's not being pretentious- it was daring, brave and most of all fresh. You'll actually remember this film in ten year's time. As good as it was , you'll have forgotten Skyfall by December....

This is, without question, a five star film. It's a work of pure genius, and is the most affecting film I've seen in many many years, and very possibly in a lifetime of cinema-going. On the surface it has a beautiful simplicity, yet under the surface it is utterly harrowing. The more you look, the more you see, and the more you think, the more you connect with the possibilities within the child's mind and her future world. The direction, acting and cinematography is sublime. It's rare to find a film like this, and if I see another in my life I'll consider myself lucky. We left the film feeling traumatised with emotion, yet uplifted with hope. A masterpiece.

This is, without question, a five star film. How the reviewer missed the many complex emotional levels I'm not sure. It's a work of pure genius, and is the most affecting film I've seen in many many years, and very possibly in a lifetime of cinema-going. On the surface it has a beautiful simplicity, yet under the surface it is utterly harrowing. The more you look, the more you see, and the more you think, the more you connect with the possibilities within the child's mind and her future world. The direction, acting and cinematography is sublime. It's rare to find a film like this, and if I see another in my life I'll consider myself lucky. We left the film feeling traumatised with emotion, yet uplifted with hope. A masterpiece.

I Would like to make a film and be a director bceause non of the director's in my country have the skill to address the exact problem and aware or educate the people every film I know is influnced by bollyhood movies and the indan's are influnced by hollyhood movies.There are a lot going on in my country. we have rich cultural background but due to the technical knowhow and dominance of indian movies I feel like we have no identity and I also wanted to compeate to the indian market and direct my people towards the 21st century since movies would be the best way to make people understand about issues and aware them for changes and it could be understood by both educated and uneducated group of people.

You need to kick this film in the nuts, ladies and gentlemen. Kick it in the nuts and keep on kicking. This film mustn't breed.

I went to this film knowing nothing about it, other than that it had had good reviews, so was prepared to be impressed. I wasn't. As it veered from chaos to cliche I had no idea what it was trying to say, apart from the clunky message about climate change, which reminded me of how all wildlife documentaries once used to end. What particularly disturbed me though was a narrative that seemed to say the father's violence and erratic behaviour (by any criteria I'm familiar with) towards the child was acceptable since she, miraculously, had the maturity to deal with it. For a child of six, behaviour like that, no matter how much it’s tempered with love and affection, would be terrifying and deeply damaging. And are we also to believe that the child of the same age who acted this part could really base her performance on an understanding of what it was all about.

The film is different and highly watchable.The relationship between father and daughter is poignant as it is a childs blind devotion and the fathers hurt and sorrow of life.The cinematography is fabulous and it makes a somewhat ugly environment almost lush and Dickensian .Very different but quite enthralling

I thought it was a boring embarrassment but I can understand how more sensitive viewers would be so revolted by it, vomit so hard and often that finally they puke their own legs up.