Summary Of The Fight Scene Analysis

Scene Analysis

The scene manifests the loneliness and troubles that Ree Dolly faces during her father’s predicament. It is evident that she is in-charge of all the affairs of the family because both her parents are incapable of performing them. Her mother is ailing and her father is on the run to avoid a conviction for making methamphetamine. The scene shows her as the dominant figure in the family and she is trying to convince the bondman that she will find her father’s killers. The scene reflects the thematic stance of the entire movie by showing Ree engulfed in the struggle to care for her family and also deal with the legal woos of his father. The themes of poverty, declining morality, breaking family ties, and the ferocity of gossip are explicit quite dramatically.
Even those she turns to as a source of advice and protection appear to be grappling with what seems to be a society on the brink of existence. In the rest of the film, local sheriffs frequent Ree’s home in anticipation that they will get some clue about Jessup’s disappearance. The terrain of the land and the quiet forests are an indication of the bleakness of Ree’s village. It shows that poverty and decadence have rendered the village quite desolate from the rest of the world for being on the wrong side of the law. Customs and traditions that keep family closely knit together in the execution of crime is also manifest in the scene. The logs of firewood, the fiddles, and banjos show rawness of the village. Listening carefully to Ree’s accent when she says, “I will find them”, reveals a lot about her indifference to the customs and cultures that are partly to blame for the predicament that her family is going through. Possibly these are the impediments of Ree’s belief s in