She has few worries and little schooling but daydreams of the Aurochs: ancient beasts that hunted early mankind.
One day she strikes her father causing the storm that washes everything away and unleashes the Aurochs from their icy prison.
No good will come of this.
CW: squalor, putrefaction, animal gutting/butchery
"When an animal gets sick here they plug it into the wall"
Very much an experience of the American South post hurricane Katrina this is a weird fantasy unmoored from modernity.
Hushpuppy and everyone she knows live a kind of feral life, free but also abandoned. They live in the cast off garbage of the world the other side of the great levee.
It's 90 minutes of life through a child's eyes: a very unusual piece of cinema. Don't expect it to "do anything" but it is very moving, recommended 8/10.