Beasts of the Southern Wild

I was very curious to see Beasts, so many critics have said it wasn't like anything they'd ever seen before. And I agree, it's not.  What is about? On the surface, a little girl named Hushpuppy lives with her father in low-lying part of New Orleans called The Bathtub.  They fish, have animals and live in squalor but they're happy. Everyone else lives that way too-black and white and they don't know any other way. And then the storm comes, Hushpuppy's father gets sick and the Aurochs come. What are the Aurochs? They are enormous beasts, trampling everything in their paths and generally causing mayhem. They look like a cross between a water buffalo and a woolly mammoth. Can anyone else see them besides Hushpuppy? Doubtful, because they represent all her fears, and she has many. But if you want a true female empowerment movie, this is it. Hushpuppy faces everything (after behaving like a brat in the beginning) and triumphs, more or else. She does what has to be done, and who can ask more than that? She is the spiritual heir of Paikea, from Whale Rider, another little girl destined to be a leader in her community and one who will make her mark on this world.