want her to watch him die, but they all go back to the Bathtub. It was heart breaking to watch Hushpuppy demand that Wink stop talking about dying. She was so brave for a little girl. She was trying to be tough like he taught her to be
After they go back to the island Hush puppy goes on a boat trip to Elysian Fields. It is under debate whether or not this was a fantasy or not. My stance was that it couldn’t have been a fantasy because she brought the food she was eating there back with her in a container inside the bag she was carrying. When I watched it a second time and really tried to analyze it I came up with a compromise to my opinion. I would agree that the atmosphere at Elysian Fields was fantasy in nature. The name itself means paradise. Like Dorothy, Hushpuppy was accompanied by 3 other children from the island .She met a lady there that seemed to be her mother. Wink had told her that she swam away from the Bathtub. Throughout the film she is talking to her mother as all the bad things happen hoping she hears her and comes to her rescue. Much like how Dorothy talks to Glenda when she wasn’t there in an almost prayer like form. The other girls dance with different ladies in the bar and Hushpuppy goes in the back with her “mother”. She talks to Hushpuppy much like Hushpuppy remembers, or from stories Wink told her. Her” mother “proceeds to fry alligator and she picks her up. Hushpuppy says it is her favorite thing. When she says that she has to go home to her father, Hushpuppy turns and they are magically backed in the Bathtub. She and her companions are on their way to her father when the Auroch’s arrive. The other girls see them and flee. Hushpuppy turns and confronts them as well. This to me is a sign that she is conquering her fears and accepting what is going to happen to her father. She says that the Auroch’s are her friends kind of. To me this means that they are a part of life and she has to learn to deal with it accordingly. Just like Dorothy after splashing water on the Wicked Witch. in order to try and wrap my mind around the food, I tried to imagine that the Auroch’s weren’t there to get a better feeling of if it was Fantasy or not . Wink looked at her with concern as her lie in the bed, but did not move in an effort to save her from them. So if they weren’t there and she was looking in the distance getting her bearings maybe Wink was wondering if she would come see him before he died so that he may say goodbye to her.
"This movie is Magically crafted as can be seen through the eyes of a child"