Watching 'Beasts of the Southern Wild' was like getting caught in a whirl pool. Right from the moment you start watching it you are sucked in. And from then on you just start spinning faster and faster until eventually you are engulfed and spat out the other side. You cannot get back to where you were before. You are changed by watching the film and enter a slightly altered world. I suppose that is because your eyes have been opened to a part of your own world you weren't in touch with and so your world then does seem altered.
I was in a small independent cinema watching it and at the end I wanted to be brave enough to start clapping and I'm pretty sure the rest of the audience would have joined in, so strong was the feeling the film gives you at the end, but I wasn't brave enough to initiate the rapture. Afterwords I didn't feel like talking or discussing the film. It took me five minutes or so to adjust myself so that I was ready to receive information and communicate with the real world as the film left me feeling displaced and I needed to claw my way back up to reality. Once I had adjusted though, I felt I walking away with a bit of Hushpuppy in my stride and in my manner. It came out enough that I was slightly concerned my fiancé would notice my feisty swagger and my wide eyed confidence, but he didn't comment. This is testament to the actress's fine performance and how much by the end of the film you feel you have got to know her, indeed for some, become her! (temporarily)
'Sophie Scholl' was also a very powerful film. After watching it, it leaves you in admiration for what these young students did. It makes you reflect on your own life with a critical eye. And you start asking yourself.. How can I be as heroic? Have I ever been heroic? Where in our society is heroism needed? Am I capable of heroism?
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