Magic Realism in ‘Beasts of the Southern Wild’: A Rare Device Not Used Enough in American Film
For those who’ve already seen “Beasts of the Southern Wild”, you already know about the Oscar-worthy performances of previous unknowns Quvenzhane Wallis and Dwight Henry. It’s the film’s community of “the Bathtub”, however, where fantasy and reality seem to coalesce into what we still call magic realism. And it seems that the Delta communities surrounding ...