"Beasts of the Southern Wild"

[Stewball]

This one is really different, which is excellent for the most part. It looks exactly like a documentary mostly because the cast has little or no experience as professional actors and they live in the part of the world depicted--including the two main characters, Hushpuppy and her father, Wink. The story is set in an extreme part of the delta at a place they call the "Bathtub". They get around in a "boat" made out of the bed of a pickup using 55 gal. drums for flotation. Loaded with Cajun/Delta culture, humor and fierce independence, there is a good story that holds it all together, but it's the journey and the sights (good and bad--ostensibly roaches and rats ended up on the cutting room floor) that presses this to your heart. 8/10

BTW, for the record, Aurochs actually existed but they were members of the bovine genus, not the fantasized giant swine with tusks AND horns depicted.