Winters bone
How far does the knowledge of the production process encourage a constant shift between passive and active spectatorship. Scenes between 01:08:31 – 01:12:41 Spectatorship throughout the movie is a mainly active focus due to the neo realism style of the film which means that it is similar to real life in a lot of aspects. The film uses long cuts and handheld camera work to draw out scenes which give them the feeling of being real. Winters Bone is also set in a remote part of America called the Ozarks where it is a patriarchal society heavily based around family and their business of drugs. These factors set the movie up sounding like a movie that would be very passive however due to production and a knowledge of the area and how it is dealt with there is hardly any conflict within the film. The sequence starts with Ree and Teardrop looking in a graveyard for her fathers grave, the scene is shot hand held and ends in an anticlimax which is typical of a neo real film which ofte