Beasts Of The Southern Wild

All the time, everywhere...

...everything's hearts

are beating and squirting...

...and talking to each other

the ways I can't understand.

Most of the time,

they probably be saying:

"I'm hungry. I gotta poop."

But sometimes

they be talking in codes.

Get out the way.

Get your pants on, man.

Feed up time! Feed up!

Feed up time!

Share with the dog.

Ain't that ugly over there?

We got the prettiest place on earth.

Daddy says, up above the levee...

...on the dry side,

they're afraid of the water...

...like a bunch of babies.

They built the wall that cuts us off.

They think we all gonna drown

down here.

But we ain't going nowhere.

The Bathtub has got more holidays

than the whole rest of the world.

Yeah!

Yeah!

Yeah!

Yeah! Yeah!

Daddy always saying...

...that up in the dry world,

they got none of what we got.

They only got holidays once a year.

All babies in the race,

come up to the starting line.

They got fish stuck in plastic wrappers.

They got their babies stuck in carriages.

And chicken on sticks

and all that kind of stuff.

One day, the storm is gonna blow...

...the ground is gonna sink

and the water is gonna rise up so high...

...there ain't gonna be no Bathtub.

Just a whole bunch of water.

Yeah!

But me and my daddy, we stay right here.

Web who the earth is for.

Meat. Meat, meat, meat.

Every animal is made out of meat.

I'm meat. Y'all asses meat.

Everything is part of the buffet

of the universe.

This here is an aurochs...

...a fierce, mean creature

that walked the face of the earth...

...back when we all lived in the caves.

And they would gobble them

cave-babies down...

...right in front of the cave-baby parents.

And the cavemans,

they couldn't even do nothing about it...

...because they was too poor

and too small.

Who up in here think

that the cavemans...

...was sitting around crying

like a bunch of pussies?

Y'all better think about that

because any day now...

...fabric of the universe

is coming unraveled.

Ice caps gonna melt,

water is gonna rise...

...and everything south of the levee

is going under.

Y'all better learn how to survive now.

Way back in the day...

...the aurochs was king of the world.

If it wasn't for giant snowballs

and the Iced Age...

...I wouldn't even be Hushpuppy.

I would just be breakfast.

Daddy?

Feed up time.

Feed up time.

Daddy?

Daddy!

Kids that got no mama,

no daddy and nobody...

...they gots to live in the woods...

...and eat grass and steal underpants.

If Daddy don't get back soon...

...it's gonna be time for me

to start eating my pets.

Daddy?

Daddy?

- That taste good?

- Yeah.

Hey, my baby, you need a ride?

No, my dad come and pick me up.

Well, what about some food

or something, darling?

You hungry?

All right, then. Well, suit yourself, okay?

Everything we still got from Mama,

I keep in my house.

Daddy says the first time

she looked at me...

...it made her heart beat so big...

...that she thought it would blow up.

That's why she swam away.

Hi, my sweet baby.

Hi, Mama.

Hushpuppy, what you doing there?

You being good like I taught you?

Yes, Mama.

You're good

You make me happy

You're good

You make me happy

You're good

That's pretty, Ma.

You're pretty, Hushpuppy.

Get out of my way, you fat animal.

Daddy.

Daddy! Daddy!

I learned lots of things

while you were gone.

If I drink all this here,

I can burp like a man.

- Why are you wearing that dress?

- Leave me alone, man.

You wearing a bracelet too?

Go to your house.

You wouldn't understand.

- I want to come to your house.

- Get out of here!

- I want to come...

- Go ahead!

Get down from there. Get over here.

Feed up time! Come on, man! Feed up!

Boss lady!

Hushpuppy, where you at?

Where you at, boss lady?

If Daddy kill me,

I ain't gonna be forgotten.

I'm recording my story

for the scientists in the future.

In a million years,

when kids go to school...

...they're gonna know, once,

there was a Hushpuppy...

...and she lived with her daddy

in the Bathtub.

Hushpuppy!

Where you at, man?

HUSHPUPPY!

Boss lady, goddamn it!

Come here!

Don't you run away from me!

I swear to God!

Get your ass back here!

I'm tearing off!

I'm tearing off just like my mama!

I'm gonna bust your ass! Come here!

- Come here!

- No!

See what happen.

See what happen to you.

No!

I got to worry about you all the damn time!

You killing me!

You killing me!

Get up and now come on!

I hope you die.

And after you die, I'll go to your grave

and eat birthday cake all by myself.

Mama, I think I broke something.

Get over here!

Come on, let's go! Come on!

Miss Bathsheeba!

My daddy fell down.

Oh, God. Come on, baby.

Be okay.

Hushpuppy, take this medicine.

You run fast as you can. Go.

Daddy could've turned into a tree.

Or a bug.

There wasn't any way to know.

The whole universe...

...depends on everything

fitting together just right.

If one piece busts,

even the smallest piece...

...the entire universe will get busted.

The storm's coming! The storm's coming!

The storm is coming!

The storm is coming!

Hey, Walter. What it is?

Afraid of a little water?

I ain't messing with you, Wink.

I'm getting out of here.

You can stay if you want, but I'm out.

Hey, now. What's up?

Look at these a**holes...

...running around all over the damn place.

C'est la vie, a**holes.

- Hey.

- Ho! There's my boy, Wink!

- We gonna do this storm?

- Let me tell you.

These a**holes go up and down here

all day long.

That's what I'm talking about. LITTLE

We ain't leaving. I'm behind you.

- Man, I don't mind telling you, I am scared.

- Just leave.

- This ain't no little one.

- Damn p*ssy.

I'm leaving here

soon as I finish my beer.

No, you're not. You're gonna stay here

with me. I'll see you tomorrow, Walrus.

- Y'all want to die, okay, fine.

- Look at Winston.

Winston, I know you with me, huh, man?

What you gonna do about the storm,

man?

- Hey, Hushpuppy.

- Hushpuppy?

Get that girl a beer.

Where you been?

- What happened to you?

- Shut up.

You don't talk.

Come here!

Come here, ugly!

Just because you

burnt your house down...

...don't mean you can walk

in here and take over.

This side of the house

is still Wink's side.

No toys, no girl stuff over here.

And if I want to come over there

and smack you in the face...

...that's against the rules,

so that's a plus for you.

So come on down here

and get in the boat.

Come on, get in the boat!

Get in the boat.

And if the water gets real high,

we're gonna float to this roof...

...we're gonna bust through the ceiling

and we're gonna ride away, okay?

Now I want you to put these on, okay?

Slide your arm through here.

Don't you never, never take these off.

I'm your daddy and you're

gonna do what I tell you to do...

...because it's my job

to keep you from dying, okay?

So sit back and listen to me.

And close your eyes.

Go to sleep.

Go to sleep!

Why you staring at me like that?

How I'm supposed to sleep

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