Key Features of Winter's Bone

Key Features of Winter's Bone

Themes of the film:

• Family
• Innocence
• Relationships
• Poverty
• Drug use/addiction
• Raw and Primal Environments
• Patriarchy/Sexism

Social Context;

• Niche Micro-Society (everyone related)
• Poverty
• Addiction
• Violence/Murder 
• Sexism

Overall Stylisation:

• Handheld camera - emphasises the reality and the unstable character (Ree)
• Natural lighting - More authentic and not artificial 
• Rural Environment -  
• Earthy Tones - 
• Diegetic Sound - 
• Active Spectatorship (few areas of passive) - convention of independent films
• Lots of shots of run-down/ derelict toys and vehicles - 
• Neo-Realistic Documentary-Type Style - 

Extra Information:

• Independent film with the budget of $2,000,000
• Cool and earthy tones within the films aesthetic and miss-en-scene
• Lack of non-diegetic sound as it makes the film more realistic as all the sound and speech is real
• All shot with natural lighting, not at extremities with low key and high key lighting. Only acceptation is at the school or police station where Ree is out of place

• As of the film being independent, the audience and spectatorship is different compared to main stream films like 'Inception'
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