Beasts of the southern wild

• On the surface, Beats expands socially liberal values about race, class and gender while celebrating non-traditional and anti-capitalist lifestyles.
• when looking at Beasts through a critical race theory or Marxist lens; the film is explosive and regressive with its narrative and representations strengthening dangerous conservative notions such as wealth, ethnicity and government intervention
• BOTSW's dominant reading is steeped in left-wing representations

  • such as the progressive casting
• BOTSW race and diversity

  progressive in the protagonist being a black female

  • being raised solely by her black father ( contradicting the stenotypes of absent black dads)

  The 'Bathtub' is in racial harmony

  • black and white characters mix freely together
  • best illustrated by the opening montage ( a carnival of diversity)
  • indicates there progressive open-mindedness and refuse to bend to conservative norms
• The 'Bathtub'

  The Bathtub is left-wing in its challenge to capitalism

  • community rejects plastic consumption living in harmony with the land
  • wink's trailer park resting on stilts with farm animals mingling beneath them
  • Court 13 made the set from from the surroundings in Louisiana after Katrina therefor the production mirrors the context
• BOTSW authenticity with casting

  no-one in the cast in the film had previously worked as an actor

  • all Louisiana locals who understood what it meant to climb onto the roof of their house to avoid flood
• beasts pitch the poor as spiritual and self-sufficient who have developed their own culture with their own beliefs and customs