The beast of the Southern Wild

Yesterday I did something I haven't done in a while... Watch a "deep" movie. 

Well... technically, we saw 2 films

The first one was "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty".

I wish I had more to say about this film. A lot of people like to either hate it or love it. I've read and seen people being really opinionated about it. 

I like the film, its a nice innocent film where Ben Stiller is just being himself in a very special way. Something that I liked was the music... 

Listen to this one song... it's like a perfect workout song. 

Maybe later I will talk more about this film, cause I did end up having a great conversation about the deeper meaning of it. 

But that will be for another time. 

This time I want to talk about this movie. "Beasts of the Southern Wild"

Here is the trailer 

Just from the trailer, you can tell that it's one of those films. One of those films that don't follow the normal structure of three acts to tell a story... But rather a film that by the end of it, you just sit there and try to think what just happened. 

Movies like this are very dangerous... They tread a fine line between entertaining film and a movie that is meant to create thought. A dangerous film, because, if people don't see it in the right light, it can be seen as a bad film. On both ends... Because as an film of entretainment... it will not be entretaining enough... and as a deep film... it will be too much of a commercial blockbuster to create a deep thought. 

So, it can get caught on a limbo. But, of course, people will not understand what I said in the previous paragraph... so let's just try to not understand it, and accept it.

But this movie brings a good subject to talk about in film. 

The entire range of films that are made for thought is always a set of movies I try to stay away from. Not that I don't like them. And because of this, I am probably missing a good deal of great movies out there. 

But the reason I avoid these films is because I am the product of J.J. Abrams and Michael Bay and the one guy who made the 1999 Godzilla film.

It's all about action and explosions. I like the thrill of Jason Bourne driving a car through the city while the bullets are whizzing by his hair. 

This is not something I am proud of. It has taken me a while to actually get into the films that are not action or thriller or all kinds of horror. Films like Beast of the Southern Wild, are creating (for me) a bridge that I can cross from the realm of Marvel films (which are not bad) to a place where cinema is more than just a medium to tell a story, but a medium to send a message to people about a certain subject. 

I am proud to say that I enjoyed this film alot... and from now on, I'll try to dive deeper into a realm of cinema that I haven't explored yet

That is all I have to say about that