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Winter's Bone


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🎙️ EPISODE 300: 01.24.2021 *Review starts @ ~ 3:35:53

A large part of this movie's appeal is the "Do these people really exist?" undercurrent. Based on a novel by "country noir" 'specialist' Daniel Woodrell, it tells the story of an Ozark hill people family, led by seventeen-year old Ree Dolly, portrayed here by America’s Sweetheart, Oscar-nominated Jennifer Lawrence. The methed-out hillbilly is a cliche, but this movie uses very real, stark imagery to inspire a fear, or at least an anxious bubbling, that–perhaps not so far away from our safe suburban homes and chic urban settings–live these lawless cretins. It's Deliverance, only instead of Burt Reynolds and co. we have Jennifer Lawrence. Stripped of this specific setting, the film isn't more than your standard mystery / quest flick. The payoff is clever and the acting is solid, but what makes Winter's Bone great is the very subtle thing it says about America. Which is the real spoiler alert (UGH).


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*** part of THE BIG EPISODE 300 EXTRAVAGANZA wherein I reviewed 36 movies, mostly live reads of critiques I wrote between 2009-2012. The finished ✏️ product above is a highly edited version of the truly embarrassing one that was read during the five-hour podcast recording. I guess this is growing up. ***

THE 36 MOVIES REVIEWED DURING EPISODE 300
30 MINUTES OR LESSALEX BAG: UNTITLED FALL '95AWAY WE GOBEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILDBEING ELMOBORAT SUBSEQUENT MOVIEFILMTHE BROTHERS SOLOMONA BUCKET OF BLOOD
THE CAMPAIGNTHE CENTER OF THE WORLDCHRISTMAS ON MARSTHE CHRISTMAS TREE • CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE. • (500) DAYS OF SUMMERA FIELD IN ENGLANDFUNNY PEOPLEGET HIM TO THE GREEKGIGANTIC (A TALE OF TWO JOHNS) • INCEPTIONJEFF, WHO LIVES AT HOMELEAVE NO TRACEMAN ON WIREMIDNIGHT IN PARISMONEYBALLMOONMUTUAL APPRECIATIONPOM WONDERFUL PRESENTS: THE GREATEST MOVIE EVER SOLDRISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APESSLEEPWALK WITH ME • SOME DRINKING IMPLIEDTIM AND ERIC'S BILLION DOLLAR MOVIETRANSITTO ROME WITH LOVETHE WICKER MANWINTER'S BONEYOUTH IN REVOLT


CHRONOLOGICALLY
EPISODE 300i - (YOU ARE HERE) - EPISODE 300iii ⫸

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