This sets Ree on her mission.\u00a0 She must find her father and convince him to turn up for the trial.\u00a0 She has a single clue to get her started.\u00a0 She knows her father dabbled in the local drug trade so she’ll have to make some inquiries with some of the shadier folk in the Ozarks.\u00a0 To make things even more complicated, she meets with Teardrop, her uncle, who believes that Ree’s father might have been killed.<\/p>\n
That last paragraph makes Winter’s Bone<\/em> sound like a thriller or a road movie of sorts.\u00a0 It’s not, really.\u00a0 It’s more of a character piece.\u00a0 Ree, the determined and steely teenager is the film’s protagonist.\u00a0 The rest of Ozark, feels like it collectively represents one dirty, meth-addicted obstacle who refuse to co-operate and would rather this girl stop putting her nose where it isn’t wanted.<\/p>\n Winter’s Bone<\/em> is often a difficult film to watch.\u00a0 Most of the time, although we admire Ree’s courage, we’re also filled with a sense of dread for her wellbeing.\u00a0 The rest of the time, the film evokes the same sort of feelings as Deliverance<\/em> does about small-town America.\u00a0 What the hell is this place?\u00a0 Can entire town’s really end up like this?\u00a0 It’s pretty depressing.\u00a0 It also brought back memories of Louis Theroux’s excellent documentary ‘A City Addicted to Meth<\/a>‘.<\/p>\n Ultimately, I suspect that Winter’s Bone<\/em> won’t find a particularly large audience or be remembered in years to come.\u00a0 It’s an excellent film but its subject matter is very dark.\u00a0 The Oscar nominations will probably help stretch out its lifespan in the cinema but I suspect its mostly making up the numbers at the Academy Awards, unless there’s an award for most misleading poster.\u00a0 Seriously, what the hell is this:<\/p>\n
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