Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012), a film worth watching: “A surreal fairytale”, as I read somewhere. Not giving away too much of the content I am sure that while watching 
the film one clearly realizes the blurred borders of fiction and reality in the everyday, which Foucault once stressed so prominently. It shows that realities can only be made accessible through fictional images, as experience, be it in literature or film.
When sea level rises and people decide to stay at home/or/live in that self-chosen exile, it is a vision which is not only referring to short-term climate catastrophes but also to a colonial past, present and especially, to future scenarios, in which questions arising in this film will become even more urgent: WHO decides for WHOM,WHOSE dam is it that I want to be torn down?
The title of the film is already indicating its major focus, multifarious excoticised images creating a stereotypical Other, which lives in an “uncivilized”, “wild” way. This makes the picture a global one, not only providing references to the North American context but being a reminder of the “coloniality of power” (Murphy 2012) which continues to give meaning to existing spatial structures and cross-border movements.
To the sountrack: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFFiaTOAWIc
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