Ree travels the Ozark

• Beginning with an OTS MS, Ree's best friend signals for Ree to enter, but she does not, holding her baby with the subsequent MS showcasing her partner sat on the sofa
• In a MCU Ree states 'you gonna invite me in?', initiating that the man must pass anything that happens, and the women do not have a say.
• In a later scene – we see that Ree’s friend has rebelled against her husband orders female strength when it comes to helping friends – in order to help Ree.

  Strength and power and vitality of these female friendships – the most powerful thing a girl can have is a friend. The power of the female relationships is prevalent in this film.
• In a MS – the girls leave the room to go to the bedroom, avoiding the man to converse, building a sense of distrust with men and female solidarity.
• In a MCU Ree immediately takes on the maternal role once her friend leaves the room, this maternal motherhood is built into the women so much it becomes their second nature.
• ‘that’s so sad to hear you say you can’t do something and then you don't do it… its different when your married.’ Marriage = ownership.
• MLS -' he said no'
• Panning LS shows Ree travelling through the forest to get to the next house: her covered up costume removing any ability for the male gaze to be applied.
• The clothes she is wearing were supplied by the ozark community.
• McDonough voyeuristic camera
• LS - stand off composition between Ree and Victoria 'what brings you here, somebody dead?'
• TD is heard before he is seen: 'you ought not do that' and there is a sense of his presence filling the space without him being seen.
• Immediately once he enters the room, the handheld camera moves, taking Ree + Victoria out of the frame and centre framing the composition on TD - reflecting the male dominance in the ozark.
• Sociolect of the Ozark 'where a mans at ain't necessary for you to know neither' reflects their lack of education.
• SRS between Ree and TD
• Tightening the MS on TD as he gets agitated with Ree's persisting questions, threatening stare into her
• Performance - casually loading a gun creating a sense of threat and potential violence that lingers in the sequence, the pleonastic clicking of the gun makes its presence clear.
• Blunt dialogue dismissing his wife ‘shut up’ the men won’t listen to no one, especially if it is a female talking: feminist ideology.
• 'i said shut up once already with my mouth'
• Normalised domestic violence, said as a casual comment with no desire to hide it as this is said with company in the room, especially an influential teenager.
• Cuts to an ECU of teardrop: intimidating and claustrophobic as audience is forced into his personal space, creating this fear.
• Non-diegetic ominous droning creates this warning / tension.

  His presence is terrifying. We don’t know when he will strike, he is a ball of barely contained anger that could unleash at any moment – which it does suddenly when Ree questions him – he is not to be questioned, he is to be feared. And he makes this clear to Ree when he grabs her neck.  
• There is quick paced cut as TD lunges at Ree, grabbing her by the neck. Dominant act of violence to get her to shut up = rage.

  He dominates the frame mirroring the power imbalance, and the OTS shot shows him literally pushing her downwards, reducing her to nothing.
• The woman live in fear of the mans next move
• Off screen diegetic voice – teardrop warning Ree – setting her up for what is to come and gives her some money, he does care for her and does not want her getting involved with something that will cause further distress.
• Subjective camera work spatially aligning the audience with Ree
• TD leave the room - allegiance is created with the women in the Ozark due to the immoral / unlikeable portrayal of men - even through the discussion of Ree's father.
• All the third man can offer Ree is cocaine or 'smoke', whilst the woman tells Ree where to go and helps her.
• Ree is searching for her Father, who prior has been arrested for Meth dealing which is prevalent in the Ozark community.

  Showing how the financial crisis leads to many people in the Ozark community having to turn to drugs to make money, to stay afloat.
• Gender roles: the fixated roles where men are dominant, and women are subservient to their husbands.

  The men are violent, whether this be by nature or more because of the way that the Ozark has set up how the people should behave (seen later with teardrop not wanting to kill who killed his brother but has to.)
• Ideology: There is a clear imbalance of power between the men and the women. They live in a patriarchy.
• Spectatorship: Active viewer can sense the domestic violence that occurs between td and his wife