Beasts of the Southern Wild

In my G&T 2 class we watched a eye opening movie called Beasts of the southern wild. It was about a little girl names Hush Puppy who lives with her father in the bathtub. In the movie, a huge storm hits the bathtub, and completely floods the area. The few remaining inhabitants of the bathtub are forced to reside in one house, that lays above the water line, and travel around by boat. In order to get the water to recede, Hush Puppy's father blows up the levy that is holding all the water in the bathtub. Towards the end of the movie, the viewer becomes aware that Hush Puppy's father has a serious health condition, and eventually dies. The homes of the characters were very surprising to me. They were all in shambles and poorly constructed. Even though they face harsh conditions, they are still happy with where they live and don't want to leave. The relationship between Hush Puppy and her father is very interesting as well. It's hard to describe in words, it was kind of like an extreme love/hate relationship. Hush Puppy would do something she wasn't allowed to do, and her father would yell at her, then they would start doing something almost fun, while they were still angrily yelling at each other. Her father wasn't that protective of her either. She just wandered off to where every she wanted to go and her father wouldn't care. He even left her alone for a day or so, because he was in the hospital. Her father told her to pull the fuse on some dynamite,while they were all less than 30 feet away from the bomb. This video can also help us learn more about humanity. The inhabitants of the bathtub live totally different lives then we do here in the states. There lives are striped down to the bare essentials. The technology we have here, most likely alters our behavior as humans. But, if we analyze the people in the video we could get a better sense of what it means to be human, without any added stimuli.