I just saw Beasts of the Southern Wild and it's one of those movies that you keep thinking about the next day. Visually, I did not enjoy the experience of the movie because it was filmed in such a filthy world, but that was the point of the movie. It is a movie about a little girl who is living in a place near New Orleans they call the Bathtub. The movie chronicles the storm Katrina and the effects on the lives of a little girl who is already living in very precarious circumstances. She lives as if in a garbage dump and yet there is beauty and magic in this world; a sense of community that you could never find in suburbia. About halfway through the movie you realize that they, the people who live around this little girl named Hush Puppy, are the beasts of the Southern Wild. Hush Puppy has been referred to as a mythical hero and I can see why. Immediately, the next day after seeing the film, I am thinking of her when I meet the challenges in my very ordinary world. If she, a 6 yr old, can handle what she has to deal with, my troubles seem pretty small.