Visual/narrative pleasures

• Animal motifs on costumes is a recurring theme:

  -Closeness with nature

  -Ozarkians live off land

  -Agriculture industry
• Highly expressive minimal aesthetic:

  Natural, observational images of cold Missouri backdrop
• Visceral imagery of meat and animals:

  -Highlights harshness of land

  -Shows resourcefulness of Ozark people
• Depiction of rural life is subverted by framing it through a

  female lead
• Viewer positioned as an outsider, feeling like an intruder:


  Shows alienated relationships --> communal, familial, detachment from mainstream America