White Bird in a Blizzard.

White Bird in a Blizzard.

Key Cast: Shailene Woodley, Eva Green and Shiloh Fernandez.

Director: Gregg Araki.

Writer: Gregg Araki.

Genre: Mystery Crime Thriller.

Themes: Family, Betrayal, Relationships, Friendships, Deceit. 

Release: September 2014

Key Scenes: 

An important scene within the film is when Kat Connors (Shailene Woodley) starts to become suspicious of almost everyone she cares about. As she starts looking into what could have happened to her mum, she starts to doubt and question people. Throughout the film she constantly gives off the impression that she blames her mum for leaving them and that she doesn't care about her mum anymore. This is significant because she puts up a wall through out the whole film but as soon as she wants answers she starts to care for her mum. This implies to the audience that she has always wanted to understand why the things that happened, happened. When she starts to become suspicious of everyone the only person who she truly wants to trust is her mum.

Other important scenes in the film is when she has dreams about her mum being lost in the snow. Along with the title of the film it is suggesting that Kat desperately wants to find her mum but there are obstacles in her way that she cant control. Also the idea of Kat referencing snow with her mother, foreshadows the events to come. This is also implies that Kat has subconsciously known the whole time what really happened with her mums disappearance.

Key Micro-features:

A key micro-feature in the film White Bird in a Blizzard is performance. The performance is important in the film especially concerning the protagonist Kat, as she is always trying to make herself appear older than she is. In the film, she directly targets older men in which to have a relationship with. She goes for the police officer who is in charge of her mothers case. This could imply that she wants to move away from her child hood as it comes with bad memories. She also references in the film that when she was growing up her mum was almost jealous of her. Her performance in the film suggests that she wants people to see her as older and more mature, meaning she is trying to escape her child hood.
Also the performance by Eva Green is also important. This is because at the beginning of the film we see her to be strange and unstable which makes the audience believe that she would run away and leave her family. When we find out the real reason behind her disappearance the audience is more shocked as from her behavior we assumed we already knew what happened to her.