Winter's Bone

Backwoods Missouri has never been captured so well in motion.  Everything from the local actors to the frozen wastelands where it was filmed adds to this movie’s authenticity.

        

 I wouldn’t recommend Winter’s Bone if you want a cheery, feel good movie.  If you  want to be cut to the core by brilliant acting however, then I would give it five stars.  Jennifer Lawrence does a fantastic job starring as Ree Dolly, a character similar to her role as Katniss in the Hunger Games.  Although the two movies start out in equivalent poverty, they take very different directions as Ree finds her fighting with adults rather than children in her quest to find her crystal cooking father.

        

The stakes are brutally high and you find yourself more and more enwrapped in the lead’s life as the film progresses.  Again, fantastic movie, utterly chilling. 

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