[film] Winter's Bone

2010 American independent film about the teenage daughter of a lowlife meth-cooker who has skipped on bail and put the family house up as a bond. She has to find him before the family become homeless. It's the Ozarks, and in their community silence is valued over the family keeping their home. Women have no value and are basically slaves, although they do resort to violence themselves to enforce the community's values. The closest thing to social services is the more prosperous smallholders on the next farm who make sure that the family doesn't starve.

It's bleak, as is the landscape of the Ozarks in winter, and it superbly illustrates the reason I'm a feminist (when men are dicks, women and children suffer), but it's very good.

After this and The Place Beyond the Pines, I think I might break down and see Iron Man 3 next weekend.