The characters all share the unspoken … * At the end of the film, Teardrop reveals that he knows what happened to his brother. Milton refuses to see her; the only information Ree comes up with are warnings to leave the situation alone and stories that Jessup died in a meth lab fire or skipped town to avoid the trial. A partial answer can be found in the concept of Kyriarchy. Winter's Bone received widespread critical acclaim, with Jennifer Lawrence's performance being universally lauded. Ree tries to go see Milton again and is severely beaten by the women of his family. Showing all 6 items Jump to: Summaries (5) Synopsis (1) Summaries. When the independent drama Winter's Bone took home best film and screenplay honors from Sundance 2010, it … (1984), Andrei Rublev (1966) – Some We Call Nothing at All, Ivan’s Childhood (1962) – Adolescent Dreamscapes, Grey Gardens (1975) – Hell is a Collection of Dead Raccoons, Humanity’s Inhumanity to Humanity « Cathedral Crossings, The Kids Are All Right (2010) – It’s a Woman’s World… Thanks to Men. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. As well as exploring the masculinisation of Ree, Winter’s Bone also considers the potential emasculation of Teardrop. Directed by Debra Granik. Shelley Waggener as Sonya - a neighbour who takes care of Ree's horse. Winter’s Bone demonstrates not only that women can be complicit in the oppression of other women but that men can also find themselves forced into a particular social role that they may personally find oppressive and intolerable. It is a truism so blatant that it is unworthy of uttering. In the rural Ozarks of Missouri, seventeen-year-old Ree Dolly looks after her mentally ill mother, twelve-year-old brother Sonny, and six-year-old sister Ashlee. Needless to say, Ree is not overly impressed. Ashlee Thompson as Ashlee Dolly - Ree's younger sister. Yes, a man may well have an easier time rising to the top than a woman but at the same time a lesbian woman may well have an easier time of it than a trans man and a black man may lead a harder life than an asian woman while a one-legged Baha’i woman may find doors opening to her that have previously been shut in the face of a HIV+ Catholic. If Teardrop knows what happened to Dolly-pere then he must act upon that information. It’s a boy thing. The Ozarks landscape itself is in its stark late winter beauty. Winter’s Bone (Debra Granik, USA, 2010) is a quest movie with a deadline: Ree Dolly’s father has put up the family home and the land they live off as bond for his bail.As the film begins, we’re told he’s due to go to court but the Sheriff can’t find him. Ree tries to give Jessup's banjo to Teardrop, but he tells her to keep it at the house for him. Club put the film at No. Ree and Gail are the only characters shown resisting this part of the culture. […]. Top 10 (listed alphabetically) – Rick Groen and Liam Lacey, This page was last edited on 7 December 2020, at 15:27. We are ruled not by a Patriarchal father but by a Kyriarchal lord and the shape of that lord is forever changing. Casey MacLaren as Megan - Ree's distant cousin. With Ree’s father permanently on the lam Ree’s household must rely upon the negotiation skills of Ree’s mother but as she suffers from a mental illness all of the household’s agency is centred upon Ree who lacks the social nous to assume the role of a woman and the physical power and intensity to assume the role of a man. Winter's Bone by Daniel Woodrell is a poetic novella set in the Ozarks - the impoverished and (in this book) icily cold mountain region of Missouri and Arkansas. In closing, the movie Winter’s Bone deals with many the weaker perspective in the social constructions of gender, class, and race. Ree Dolly (Jennifer Lawrence) was born into a life of misery. In fact, he does not act by himself. [13] It also received two awards at the 2010 Berlin Film Festival in Germany and at the 2010 Stockholm International Film Festival, it won the awards for Best Film, Best Actress (Lawrence) and the Fipresci Prize. They are to be feared. By allowing the effectively orphaned Ree to navigate a path through her community, Winter’s Bone is suggesting that she might somehow escape from the institutions that surround her but her growing relationship with her uncle and that uncle’s need to avenge his brother’s death strikes a discordant minor chord in what would otherwise be a beautifully melodic ending. Isaiah Stone as Sonny Dolly - Ree's younger brother. Dismayed at her own family’s reticence to offer help, Ree decides to take her request to the local Big Man Thump Milton (Ronnie Hall). The film's subsequent outing and expansion to 39 theaters earned $351,317, with an average of $9,008 per theater. Had Thump or his men been involved then Teardrop would have to get involved, the fact that it was women who beat up Ree suggests that there is still some room for discussion and rational negotiation. The Winter’s Bone Community Note includes chapter-by-chapter summary and analysis, character list, theme list, historical context, author biography and quizzes written by community members like you. In its lived-in, completely non-ideological way, “Winter’s Bone” is one of the great feminist works in film. There I discussed Ree Dolly, the film’s heroine, in the overwhelmingly white context of Taney County, Missouri, where the median household income is about 75% of the national median. Rather than seeking to placate the lawman, Teardrop reaches for his rifle and a tense stand-off ensues. Imagine an ending where Ree does convince Teardrop to give up his noirish cycle-of-violence ways, where he just sits down on the porch and plays the banjo for them, and maybe sticks around for a plate of squirrel stew and helps with the … [16], Interview with Jennifer Lawrence ("Ree Dolly"), List of accolades received by Winter's Bone, "At the end will be her father, alive or dead", "Winter’s Bone Heats Up in the Heartland", "Life in a Shatter Zone: Debra Granik's Film, Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Feature, Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Ensemble Cast, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Winter%27s_Bone&oldid=992871085, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. He is like a male lion and the male lion is not the pride. Winter’s Bone is based on the book by Daniel Woodrell, who says in John Williams’ Back to the Badlands, “These people are so alienated from American culture that it’s like a parallel universe.” According to Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, the face of human oppression takes myriad forms. It’s beautifully shot, showcasing one of the faces … H illbilly-gangster-realist-noir is a genre new to me, and Winter's Bone may be the only example. Suddenly, the picture starts to snap into focus. Kevin Breznahan as Little Arthur - Megan's husband, member of the methadon gang. It portrays humanity as individuals utterly incapable of escaping the demands placed upon them by institutions which, were they human, would be described as psychopathic. His nebulously defined territory is filled with all kinds of vehicles and buildings littered with not only animals but also relatives loyal to him. Teardrop is not to be questioned. Ree reassures Sonny and Ashlee that she will never leave them. “I already told you to shut up once with my mouth” he adds menacingly when his wife attempts to press the issue. The double-edged nature of Ree’s non-gendered identity is beautifully explored through her relationship with Teardrop: * Ree’s father cooks crank for a living. A … [11] According to the distributor, "the filmmakers had always wanted to deliver the movie to the people who helped them make it". « Ruthless Culture, Film Log For The Second Half of 2010 « Ruthless Culture, Films of the Year : The 2010 Edition « Ruthless Culture. The dynamic nature of human oppression goes some way to explaining the extent to which women can be complicit in the oppression of other women. In a recent post, I commented on what the film “Winter’s Bone” might reveal about white privilege. An insight into the weirdly co-dependent relationship between the reasonable, accommodating women and the terrifyingly irrational men of the Ozarks is provided by Marshall Sahlins’ seminal paper on Polynesia power dynamics “Poor Man, Rich Man, Big-Man, Chief — Political types in Melanesia and Polynesia” (1983). He is out on bail following an arrest for manufacturing meth. Valerie Richards as Connie - Ree's mentally ill mother. The film stars Jennifer Lawrence as a teenage girl in the rural Ozarks of Missouri who, to protect her family from eviction, must locate her missing father. This message is then amplified by Ree’s trip to see her uncle and aunt. Her husband will not permit it. He warns her that if she finds out who did, she must not tell him. Kyriarchy is a concept designed to move discussions of prejudice and social dominance beyond the kind of simplistic oppositional dynamics that have for too long dominated this area of political discourse. “The astonishing thing is not that some people steal or that others occasionally go out on strike, but rather that all those who are starving do not steal as a regular practice, and all those who are exploited are not continually out on strike: after centuries of exploitation, why do people still tolerate being humiliated and enslaved, to such a point, indeed, that they actually want humiliation and slavery not only for others but for themselves?”. To be in a family is to be a cog in an inhuman machine. An unflinching Ozark Mountain girl hacks through dangerous social terrain as she hunts down her drug-dealing father while trying to keep her family intact. If Ree is born into a life of misery it is because she has been born into a family structure without clear roles and boundaries. Winter's Bone is a 2010 American mystery drama film directed by Debra Granik. The film has an approval rating of 94% on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 174 reviews with an average score of 8.31/10. So wrote the psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich in his book on the psycho-sexual attractions of authoritarianism The Mass Psychology of Fascism (1933). He must be a man. “Shut up!” Teardrop bellows when his wife asks. Indeed, the question is not why would a woman cut off her partner’s penis and throw it out the window of a speeding car but rather why it is not a daily occurrence. In the Ozarks, the family is not a supportive environment but the wheel upon which the individual is broken. Thump’s job is to look dangerous and to act with decisive and terrifying violence. Contents Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19 Chapter 20 Chapter 21 Chapter 22 Chapter 23 Chapter 24. Teardrop responds by ruefully shaking his head and commenting that she has evidently not yet ‘acquired a taste for it’. He tells her that she must provide proof that her father is dead to avoid the bond being forfeited. Notionally patriarchal in structure, these roles oppress men as much as they oppress women because they deprive men of their freedom. Ree is escorted through this post-apocalyptic landscape by Thump’s grand-daughter who takes Ree first to a minor underling named Little Arthur (Kevin Breznahan) and then to the house of the Big Man himself. This is a theme that cuts right to the heart of Debra Granik’s cinematic adaptation of Daniel Woodrell’s novel Winter’s Bone (2006). "[7] David Edelstein wrote in New York magazine, "For all the horror, it’s the drive toward life, not the decay, that lingers in the mind. [11] The film was in cinemas for over 45 weeks and ultimately earned $6,531,503 domestically and $9,600,048 internationally for a total of $16,131,551, surpassing its $2 million budget. In Lawrence, Granik has found just the right young actress to inhabit Ree. Unmistakably filmed on location, this film focuses on a society that has been left behind. After making an ill-judged attempt to ambush the Big Man with a direct appeal, Ree is kidnapped and badly beaten. William White as Blond Milton - Sonya's husband, a methadon addict. Winter’s Bone is simultaneously a rigorous travelogue and an exercise in earthy gothic. Ree’s first stop is the house of her best friend. Oscar Nominated indie movie that will leave all of you thinking hard about the merciless darkness in human beings. The best of these films use the art of storytelling to reveal deep truths about human nature. Densely atmospheric, beautifully shot and well acted – the film is […], […] A piece on Granik and women’s oppression of women. The dynamic nature of human oppression goes some way to explaining the extent to which women can be complicit in the oppression of other women. In a later scene, the sheriff seeks to explain to Ree that he backed down in order to protect her but it is abundantly clear that Ree thinks him not only a coward but actually un-manly. Winter's Bone by Daniel Woodrell is a poetic novella set in the Ozarks - the impoverished and (in this book) icily cold mountain region of Missouri and Arkansas. Having learned of their father’s death, the children have begun sorting through his things and they have uncovered an old banjo. At one point, Teardrop pulls out a plastic bag full of crank and offers some to Ree, who immediately refuses it. Winter's Bone (2010) Plot. Teardrop rescues Ree, promising her attackers that she will not cause more trouble. Upon being handed his brother’s banjo, Teardrop plucks uncertainly at it. Set in the Ozark mountains, the film tells the story of a seventeen year-old girl as she navigates the terrifying network of hatreds, fears and obligations that holds together her impoverished rural community. ‘Kyriarchy’ is a neologism coined by the Harvard theologian Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza. Indeed, while Winter’s Bone depicts the men of the Ozark mountains as violent, unpredictable and savage, it also makes it abundantly clear that these are social roles that the men are forced into. 1 on their list of the best movies of the year. In Granik’s Ozark mountains, men are violent and psychotic because that is what they are expected to be. However, before deciding upon which course of action to take, Teardrop sits on the porch beside his nephew and nieces. She makes sure her siblings eat and teaches them survival skills such as hunting and cooking. She is beaten not by Thump or by any of his male relatives, but by his wife and her coterie of female underlings. It portrays a community in which women are expected to be submissive to the will of their husbands. Sheriff Baskin tells Ree that if her father does not appear for his court date, they will lose the house because it was put up as part of his bond. Humanity’s inhumanity to Humanity takes myriad forms. While Winter’s Bone is filled with men playing banjos and other musical instruments, it never grants any of these musicians a speaking part. If one wants to reason with Thump’s household, then one speaks to his wife. The film explores the interrelated themes of close and distant family ties, the power and speed of gossip, self-sufficiency, poverty, and patriarchy as they are influenced by the pervasive underworld of illegal meth labs. Up until that point, the tendency of Ozark women to speak and apologise for their irrational and violent men was taken to be just that; women serving as a social buffer-zone for their men folk. Her performance is more than acting, it's a gathering storm. On the way home from a bar, Ree and her uncle are stopped by the sheriff, who wants to question Teardrop. His fingers shake and the noise he produces is far from musical. The bondsman gives Ree the cash portion of the bond, which was put up by an anonymous associate of Jessup. Written by Lisa R. Pruitt. This revelation is not so much announced as muttered in passing but it hints at a world of grief not only for Teardrop personally but for his wife and extended family. It is upon the naked winter bones of the family that the summer flesh of corporation, government and religion is layered. He will not say why. In this respect he is like every man in the area. […], […] Winter’s Bone (2010) [Ruthless Culture] : Amazing film. The family is destitute. Starting on a downbeat note of indie miserablism, it builds … As a political entity, Thump is merely the figurehead for an entire network of men and women who support and act for him. The film won several awards, including the Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic Film at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. To be in a family is to be used and to use others. Humanity’s inhumanity to Humanity is bred into us by the very institutions that are supposed to protect and support us in the choices we make. You wouldn’t understand. Winter's Bone Daniel Woodrell. It is about an America which is difficult to discuss and write about. However, when Teardrop turns up to speak for Ree, Thump’s women make it abundantly clear that it was they and not the men-folk who beat up his niece. In truth, society is structured by an ever-changing swarm of inequalities that reflects the dynamic nature of our civilisation. This concept is beautifully illustrated in a scene in which Teardrop has decided to help Ree to track down the bones of her father. Winter’s Bone associates crank with an almost psychotic conception of masculinity and so, when Teardrop says that Ree has not yet acquired a taste for crank, he might as well be saying that she has not yet acquired a taste for masculine behaviour patterns. The film stars Jennifer Lawrence as a teenage girl in the rural Ozarks of Missouri who, to protect her family from eviction, must locate her missing father. [4], Roger Ebert gave the film 4 out of 4 stars, praising Lawrence's steely "hope and courage" that remains optimistic despite her tribulations, and calling attention to Granik's direction that avoids passing moral judgment on the characters or descending into stereotypes. The website's critical consensus states: "Bleak, haunting, and yet still somehow hopeful, Winter's Bone is writer-director Debra Granik's best work yet — and it boasts an incredible, starmaking performance from Jennifer Lawrence. Evidently his brother was a much better player than he ever was. Dolly-pere was never much of a man. When Jessup fails to appear for the trial, the bondsman comes looking for him and tells Ree that she has about a week before the house and land are seized. Ree Dolly is a 16-year-old member of one of the clannish and impoverished families of the area, and the book describes her Homeric search for her missing father, who has put up the family house as security against a court appearance. Dolly-pere has skipped out on bail but in order to make bail he was obliged to sign away the deeds to his family home. All but a couple were performed by … Ree tells him that Jessup must be dead, because "Dollys don't run". A wiry ball of barely contained anger and irrational humours, his face is adorned with small jail-house tattoos and his wispy goatee sits between a tumescent nose and a cruel mouth on a thin face entirely composed of inhospitable angles. Daughter to a father whose skill at cooking amphetamine has left him permanently either in prison or on the run from the law, Ree has been left to provide not only for her two younger siblings but also her mentally ill mother. This initial encounter with male authority sets the tone for Winter’s Bone: In the Ozark mountains, men are irrational and alien. With Jennifer Lawrence, John Hawkes, Garret Dillahunt, Isaiah Stone. Ree sets out to find her father. "[6] Critic James Berardinelli said that "Winter's Bone is a welcome reminder that thrillers don't have to be loud and boisterous to grab the attention and keep it captive. Woodrell returned to his hometown of West Plains… Winter's Bone is a 2010 American mystery drama film directed by Debra Granik. Teardrop and Thump are not inherently psychotic, they simply act that way because that is what it means to be a man from the Ozark mountains. It is always changing and yet always present. Winter’s Bone has a keen awareness of the prospects facing millions in the US and billions around the globe. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! He is to be feared. Ree Dolly is a 16-year-old member of one of the clannish and impoverished families of the area, and the book describes her Homeric search for her missing father, who has put up the family house as security against a court appearance. Indeed, it is as though the Ozark mountains present their men-folk with a choice: One can either become a man and have agency — albeit agency constrained by a terrifying propensity for irrational violence — or one can become a musician — a nameless and voiceless eunuch who is never anything more than set dressing. [9] The A.V. Teardrop is an intelligent man, he understands more than he lets on, but when another man cuts across his path and decides to interfere in his business, he must act in the way expected of him. Ronnie Hall as Thump Milton - leader of the methadon gang. Released mid-2010, Winter’s Bone was a deserved sleeper hit bolstered by extremely positive reviews and word of mouth.Set in the desolate, poverty stricken Ozark Mountains, USA, it tells the story of Ree (Jennifer Lawrence), a teenage girl searching for her ‘meth chef’ father after he jumps bail putting the family home at risk. He should have stuck to playing the banjo. As the three sit on the porch, Ashlee begins to play the banjo. Nowhere is this question more salient than in considering man’s oppression of women. "[3] The film also has a score of 90 out of 100 on Metacritic based on reviews from 38 critics indicating "universal acclaim". It was adapted by Granik and Anne Rosellini from the 2006 novel of the same name by Daniel Woodrell. [10], Winter's Bone debuted in cinemas on June 11, 2010 in a limited release in 4 theaters and grossed "a hearty" $84,797, with an average of $21,199 per theater and ranking #35 at the box office. As a modern heroine, Ree Dolly has no peer, and Winter’s Bone is the year’s most stirring film. On its face, Winter's Bone, like "Down to the Bone," is a bleakly realist drama about a community decimated by poverty and hopelessness, yet bound together by deep ties of class, gender and blood. Set in the Ozarks, in a small community where illegal methamphetamine trade flourishes in a devastated economy, Winter's Bone follows the travails of … By trying to appeal directly to the Big Man, Ree is not only offending his followers, she is also attempting to communicate with that which does not exist in order to communicate. The characters in the movie are mostly poor and many of them are physically abusive of themselves and others, but they are not treated with condescension or portrayed as stupid. She starts with her meth-addicted uncle Teardrop and continues to more distant kin, eventually trying to talk to the local crime boss, Thump Milton. Again, Ree’s aunt is entirely sympathetic to the girl’s situation but despite Dolly-pere having been very close to his brother Teardrop (John Hawkes), Teardrop has no information to give as to his brother’s whereabouts. He radiates threat and wears a leather waistcoat adorned with patches and medals. A few nights later, the Milton women who beat Ree come to her house and offer to take her to "[her] daddy's bones". The only reason a death does not follow is that the sheriff decides to back down. To say that a man uses crank is to speak the obvious, you might as well point out that he breathes and eats. The Winter’s Bone quotes below are all either spoken by Ree Dolly or refer to Ree Dolly. Female or Catholic vs. Protestant but rather a patchwork of ever-changing power relations between all kinds of different groups. If you are not violent and psychotic then you are not a real man and if you are not a real man then you might as well spend your time playing the banjo. In the Ozarks of Winter’s Bone, both men and women are trapped within a rigidly defined set of social roles. Winters Bone, written by Daniel Woodrell, tells the story of seventeen year old Ree Dolly and her struggles to save her family from the unfortunate circumstance that they have found themselves in. Thump lives in what appears to be an abandoned breaker’s yard. After a tense standoff, where Teardrop implies that he knows the Sheriff leaked that Jessup was an informer, Teardrop convinces the sheriff to let them leave without any interrogation. “Winter’s Bone” does not pretend that these are the only people of the Ozarks. Winter's Bone: Music from the Motion Picture (the first offering from Light in the Attic's Cinewax imprint) contains tracks used in and inspired by the film. Having examined the social structures that support the authority of the Big Men of Polynesia, Sahlins concludes that by looking at the Big Men themselves, anthropologists have been missing the true nature of political power: “Perhaps we have been too long accustomed to perceive rank and rule from the standpoint of the individuals involved, rather than from the perspective of the total society, as if the secret of the subordination of man to man lay in the personal satisfactions of power. Ree takes the hands to the sheriff, telling him that someone flung them onto the porch of her house. However, this time things are different. They are not to be trusted or reasoned with. According to Kyriarchy, dominance is not a question of GLBT vs. Straight, Black vs. White, Male vs. He will not give his niece any information that might help her track down his brother. So, if Ree cannot find either her father or her father’s body, she will not only be left to look after her family. An unflinching Ozark Mountain girl hacks through dangerous social terrain as she hunts down her drug-dealing father while trying to keep her family intact. It also received four Oscar nominations: Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Actress for Lawrence and Best Supporting Actor for John Hawkes. Teardrop is a terrifying presence. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one: ). [12], The film won the Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic Film and the Best Screenplay Award at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. This world is established with bleak economy in the opening scenes of Debra Granik's “Winter's Bone,” which was a double prize winner at Sundance 2010. The only men who are not irrational and violent in the film are the nameless and voiceless musicians who provide the film’s rare but hauntingly atmospheric musical interludes. This concept, designed to clear some of the clutter from the road to clarity, reflects the fact that society is far more complex than a simple dichotomy of power between men and women. […] is an interesting theme running through this essay by Jonathan McCalmont analyzing the recent movie (and critic’s darling), “Winter’s Bone.” The […], […] In September I wrote a piece about Debra Granik’s excellent Winter’s Bone (2010) examining the film through the prism of what the theologian Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza calls ‘Kyriarchy’. Winter’s Bone is so aggressively focused on nastiness that it would actually hurt the piece, artistically, if its political content wasn’t slightly nasty too. Teardrop tells Ree that her father was killed because he was going to inform on other meth cookers, but he does not know who killed him. Thump does not rule by himself. However, when Ree calls at the Big Man’s house she is met not by Thump but by his hatchet-faced wife who makes it clear to Ree that the Big Man is not to be bothered and that she should go home and accept the consequences of her father’s actions. Cody Shiloh Brown as Floyd - Gail's husband. Ree's father, Jessup, has not been home for a long time; his whereabouts are unknown. ♦ Published in the print edition of the July 5, 2010 , issue . Historical Context of Winter’s Bone Winter’s Bone is set in the early 2000s, and much of the driving action takes place within the underworld of the Ozarks, especially concerning the methamphetamine trade that has, over the course of the last fifteen years, overtaken this rural American enclave. Arts and Culture 'Winter's Bone' ... Winter's Bone, which won the grand jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival last January, has a great deal to recommend it. This is a theme that cuts right to the heart of Debra Granik’s cinematic adaptation of Daniel Woodrell’s novel Winter’s Bone (2006). As he is leaving, he tells her that he now knows who killed her father. The brother who was incapable of providing for his household and who left behind him nothing but a daughter who was forced to act for him. They tell Ree to reach into the water and grasp her father's hands so they can cut them off with a chainsaw; the severed hands will serve as proof of death for the authorities. 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