Beasts of the Southern Wild is far from a perfect movie. It has a great premise and the film uses it's low budget to it's advantage and creates some remarkably powerful imagery. The movie received most of it's notoriety because the film's star Quvenzhane Wallis was the youngest actress ever at age 9 to be nominated for the best actress academy award. She has a great personality, she has all of the potential to be a Hollywood star if she chooses to go down that path. She is also very good in the film but it is the film not her acting in my opinion that carries the story. Almost all of her dialogue is done with a voice over narration and despite one really remarkable scene on her part her acting although good is not one of the greatest screen performances of all time. Again granted at her age she has already accomplished more then most people and she deserves her credit but the actual acting that she does in the film is more intuitive and not particularly challenging from a dialogue standpoint. The film's real star in the acting department is Dwight Henry's portrayal as Wink. His raw emotion and ability to portray a severely flawed and sick person who in his own crazy way embraces the madness of the world around him is remarkable. He was simply outstanding and their father, daughter chemistry is really quite special. With that being sad the end of the movie is quite emotional and works incredibly well however the film suffers from shaky camera work and parts of the film that just seem to linger for too long. You will be bored at times watching this movie but the emotional payoff between father and daughter at the end is something quite special. This is a film that needs to be watched more then once and may begin to become a truly special cult film.
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