Thursday, September 23, 2010

Review: Winter's Bone

One of the film's happier moments.

It's kinda like The Road, but set in the here-and-now Ozarks, and all the bleaker for it. "You want it fried, or in a stew?" Ree asks her little brother Sonny, after she's taught him how to shoot and clean squirrels. Fried, I nodded, so immersed in her world that I forgot to think eew.