Beasts Of The Southern Wild

In a forgotten but defiant bayou community cut off from the rest of the world by a sprawling levee, a six-year-old girl exists on the brink of orphanhood. Buoyed by her childish optimism and extraordinary imagination, she believes that the natural world is in balance with the universe until a fierce storm changes her reality. Desperate to repair the structure of her world in order to save her ailing father and sinking home, this tiny hero must learn to survive unstoppable catastrophes of epic proportions.

I cannot for the life of me put my finger on exactly why but I loved this movie. It was like a alternate version of Where The Wild Things Are but in the real world. Half of me kept thinking WTF and the other half was dying to see where this movie was going to go. It was like watching real life struggles through the eyes of a strong willed six year old . . . . . and being about to identify with it or understand it.

I would absolutely recommend people checking this out. If I were to go back and adjust my 2012 best of list, this movie would probably crack the top ten.