{"id":26,"date":"2011-06-12T23:11:53","date_gmt":"2011-06-12T23:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/movieox.com\/?p=26"},"modified":"2011-06-25T18:07:13","modified_gmt":"2011-06-25T18:07:13","slug":"the-coveted-iron-ox-of-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movieox.com\/?p=26","title":{"rendered":"The Coveted Iron Ox of 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

And now to close out talking about last year (unless I feel like it again) with what was easily the best film of 2010, Winter\u2019s Bone<\/em>.\u00a0 In case you don\u2019t know by now, and you may not since you\u2019re stupid; Winter\u2019s Bone<\/em> is a film about the organized crime culture in the Ozark mountains.\u00a0 The culture in question isn\u2019t sensationalized.\u00a0 This isn\u2019t a gangster film.\u00a0 If Dave Simon brought all the insight and skill he brought to bear on The Wire<\/em> to crystal meth in the Midwest instead of the white powders on the East Coast; he might have had a story like this.<\/p>\n

The premise is a 17 year old girl (Jennifer Lawrence), to whom it has fallen to raise her young brother and sister, is facing homelessness if her former meth cook father isn’t located.\u00a0 He apparently skipped bond and put their home up as collateral.\u00a0 The police cannot locate the man, though they have been trying in earnest.\u00a0 When this matter is brought before the girl, she answers ,”I’ll find him.”<\/p>\n

What follows is a descent into the crime world of the Ozarks.\u00a0 The movie builds tension masterfully and will not let go.\u00a0 As in every crime movie, since most characters are criminals, they are separated into those with a code and those who are animals.\u00a0 Which is which isn’t easy to tell.<\/p>\n

What I love most about this film is that it doesn’t ever stray from its own reality.\u00a0 There’s no ghost in the machine.\u00a0 There’s no cavalry.\u00a0 Nobody is coming to help you.\u00a0 Problems don’t have easy solutions and where there is no choice, often one must be carved in blood.\u00a0 The solution to the problem may be more horrifying than the problem itself.<\/p>\n

Deadwood<\/em> fans will recognize John Hawkes as Teardrop the brother of the missing.\u00a0 John couldn’t be playing a character more different than Sol Star this time.\u00a0 He’s utterly believable as The Guy You Don’t Want to Fuck With.\u00a0 And Jennifer Lawrence deserves all the praise she’s gotten for this film.<\/p>\n

I loved this movie.\u00a0 8 of 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And now to close out talking about last year (unless I feel like it again) with what was easily the best film of 2010, Winter\u2019s Bone.\u00a0 In case you don\u2019t know by now, and you may not since you\u2019re stupid; … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/movieox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169,"href":"https:\/\/movieox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions\/169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}