Debra Granik headed out to the Ozark mountains in Missouri
with nothing more then a few actors, and in the film world, a low budget of 2,000,00 dollars. What became of the time she spent there is the 2010 best picture at the Sundance film fest, Winters Bone. I know I may be behind the times but I just watched this film this weekend and was pleasantly suppressed. The main thing for me that got my goat was the realism of it all, despite the strange solution that comes at the end involving a chainsaw, I did not have a hard time feeling for the characters, and caring about what was going on in there life’s. The fact that this film is very well acted and believable, wich may come as a shock, seeing how several of he main actors have never acted in there life’s, and are true residences of the area of the filming. As a director it would seem rather a huge chance to take, asking people to act who have never read a line in there life, but for Debra, the result was great, earning her the unofficial title of lowest grossing film to be nominated for best picture sense Peter Yates: The Dresser (1983), All in all this is a very good film with tasteful shots and great use of the medium of film to make the audience see how it would truly feel to be in that situation. I would say a GOOD film worth a watch.
