Films are shaped by the ideologies of the society and that filmmaker that created it. This is shown through Beasts of the Southern Wild in the opening scene. The first example of the film showing it as conforms to the ideologies of the filmmaker is shown through the first shot of Hushpuppy's home. This is shown as being in a natural situation, this shows how the filmmaker is going against the dominant ideology of capitalism as capitalism is in direct opposition to environmental concern.
This idea is reinforced constantly throughout the film even the context of the ilm being used to reinforce it as the film is an independent film which shows how it wants to be detached from the capitalism of hollywood production companies. Although, the film did have to be distributed by Fox Searchlight Pictures which shows how even though the film was created completely with out the need from bigger companies they still rely on huge media conglomerates such as Fox.
The film also contrasts capitalism in other ways such as having the characters be in poverty. This shows how the characters did not want to conform to the conventional way of capitalism as the absence of wealth represents how they felt that it was more important to help others than to try and benefit yourself.
The aerial extreme wide shot of the bathtub shows how they make a small amount of impact on the world with a small ton compared to the previous shot of above the levee showing an "ugly" industrial area. This creates a binary opposition between the two from the industrial area that is large and metallic compared to the Bathtub which is natural and small. Along with the comparison of the shots of the Bathtub and the industrial area the narration also talks about the industrial area pointing out the unnatural method that capitalism uses to survive pointing out things such as packaged fish and babies in prams.
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