Wildcat<\/b><\/a> doesn\u2019t follow the usual storytelling of movies talking about artists or elected minds, where showing their private lives and their stories means in some way understanding their work in a better, deeper way. What Hawke delivers from the very beginning is instead a cinematic universe where the writer and the characters who live in her mind are the same thing, meaning the product of a specific environment and an even more specific existence.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/ins>\n Flannery O\u2019Connor wrote about the world she grew up in and knew better, depicting it without the glittering lens that most of the time fiction provides: on the contrary, the skepticism, the sarcasm, and the pain of her own existence turned her stories into something so true and at the same time so private, that it would be extremely difficult for them to be understood, let alone appreciated, by the common reader. <\/span><\/p>\n She dared to expose her view of the world – her world – through the pain she was experiencing. <\/span>By doing this, Flannery O\u2019Connor addressed difficult topics like religion, racism, illness, and many others with the depth and the truth that this movie remarkably achieves. Behind the surface of the so-called \u201cSouthern Gothic\u201d style the reader – and thanks to <\/span>Wildcat<\/b> the viewer – can feel the novelist\u2019s touch implanting under the skin.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a9Courtesy of Oscilloscope<\/p>\n As a director, Ethan Hawke is capable of inserting all of this in elegant and symmetric images, which convey that sense of silent desperation that Flannery O\u2019Connor put in her works. The cinematographer <\/span>Steve Cosens<\/b> does a remarkable job of showing the melancholy and aridity of the southern countryside, loading many scenes through a light that often weighs with violence and brutality upon human beings, objects, and nature. But Hawke\u2019s best achievement is how he directs his daughter Maya, capable of portraying a woman who rebels against the hypocrisy of her world exactly because she doesn\u2019t want to be a rebel. <\/span><\/p>\n Her Flannery O\u2019Connor wants to be understood and wants the readers to feel the pain and desperation she is experiencing, not only about her condition (after battling for years with Lupus she died at the age of 39) but also about living in a society still plagued with injustice and prejudices. The way <\/span>Maya Hawke<\/b><\/a> uses the gentleness of her appearance, and the softness of her voice, makes the character even more heartbreaking.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/ins>\n![\"Wildcat](\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Wildcat3.png\")
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