Review of Winter's Bone

Debra Granik delivers a riveting essay on a different America than the polished usually arrives on our screens. The white-trash community targeting the lens, the character gets a dump of souls, which burst through the pages of the novel by Daniel Woodrell. Within this closed society with its own codes and principles, a young girl with a lot of soul hundredweight - brilliantly interpreted by Lawrence - denies halt to it and relevant, of orthonontas stature among human shadows soaked to pinch and apathy, that rise from a chair usually only to threaten or act violently.

The absent mother, not uttering a word throughout the movie - as well decide the Granik - not interested let us witness of what suffers. There is also no coincidence that in this microcosm of a 17 year old and a U.S. Army sergeant end up being the only voices of reason in adults chapakomenous, stoned, lost and made by hand, just like the charred forest in which they vegetate through the cold, gray photo of Michael McDonouch.

After all this, the four Oscar nominations in major categories (best film, screenplay, A Women: Jennifer Lawrence, Actor: John Hawkes) come absolutely fair and normal. The «Winter's Bone» singles, indeed, for many reasons, not only for the separate scenes and kneel psychological surprise the viewer or the remarkable stylistic and aesthetic result.


7/10