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winter's bone (blood ties)

One of the great advantages that American independent cinema has been allowed benefit is the absolute freedom of approach if you contrast it with the structured rules Hollywood. Understood advantage in favor of a more real, less idealized life in the "states". Here there is no commitment to the American dream, the hero of the working class need not succeed, the hard and constant sacrifice does not always reward the idealistic character, spotless, incorruptible not find applause in a corrupt society the small step can not be opened and triumph over the monsters that control everything. At best, and hopefully, you survive.

Ree Dolly (Jennifer Lawrence) is an adult woman with only 17. Take care of her two younger siblings and his mother decided to "disengage" of reality, while attending the house and the family wood business in a rural community in the Ozark Plateau, far from "civilization." When news of his father, known in the region for its link with the production of methamphetamine, bail out using the house and grounds of the family and not to stand trial, the family will lose all you have, Ree is launched to locate and ensure the safety of his family.

In his second film as director, Debra Granik in Winter's Bone paints a scenario extremely cruel. In it, the conviction of his protagonist to act in a decent and honest will get the final results be constantly colliding with the real dynamics of their environment, driven by codes that are stronger than almost naive ideals of the young. The reality seems to be struggling to consume the determination of Ree, as we, the viewers, we descend into a grim spiral that reveals the forgotten corners of the cinema of the American dream and despair grows as the chances of finding the father of the protagonist will peter out.

The story works well almost at an excuse to introduce the sample of the "fauna" of these regions neglected by the billboards, whose only aspiration, as presented to us in one of the opening scenes in the college of Ree, is the military or maternity.

Lawrence's performance Ree gives a firm that does not fail even in the face barriers in their environment, and is perhaps, along with the gradual discovery of the character of Uncle Teardrop (a sublime John Hawkes), the only glimmer of light in a place that has been gaining its darkness because of the election of its inhabitants (palpable on the screen through the dense splendid photography)

3.5/5.0

Thanks for reading, are a wonderful audience

Gonza