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Life is not a honey Schlecker: Black and white are in the southern film "The Bee Guardian" unreconciled opposite. But the line between well-made and well-intentioned is very narrow in the drama - ripe with brilliant acting performances.

 

Lily Owens has had enough: Desperate shatters the 14-year-olds, the inventory of a shed, and she only listens to, when the exhaustion of their anger is the fire. It is a symbolic blow Lilys liberation, in the southern states of the early sixties, her dramatic Selbstwerdung experienced.

Right in many ways is "The Bee Guardian" a story of upheavals and the revolt against the conditions: The movie adaptation of Sue Monk Kidd 2002 bestseller "The Secret Life of Bees" folded the coming-of-age of the white teenager with the fight Lily African-American population by the political and social equality.

And for actress Dakota Fanning, as Lily in her first real role of brilliant young people, highlighted the prominent film by Gina Pryce-Bythewood emancipation from the successful image of the top-heavy child stars.

They have been impressed at the side of stars such as Sean Penn ( "I Am Sam"), Robert De Niro ( "Hide and Seek"), or Tom Cruise ( "War of the Worlds") as an early adult, age-wise yes Hänfling in traumatic situations interpreted the now 15-year-old Fanning with the immediate intensity of the feeling of turmoil and torments of a lonely girl.

For Lily, with her father T. Ray (Paul Bettany) on a abgewirtschafteten orchard in South Carolina is alive, feels since early childhood guilt for the tragic death of her mother: If a dispute between the parents was once a gun in hands, Lilys, and the fatal shot resonates to this day in their memories after blurry.

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Their careworn father punishes daughter since alternatively with great indifference or cruelty small, so the black assistant Rosaleen (Jennifer Hudson) Lilys is only confidante. When Rosaleen tries to get as Wählerin to register, it will be by local racists attacked and seriously injured. Fearing further attacks, the girlfriend gets Lily shortdecided from the hospital and together they flee from home. Lilys only clue is the picture of a black Virgin Mary from the estate of her mother.

The image carries the inscription unequal pair in the town of Tiburon, Lily and actually find there the origin of the icon: The original version of the Black Madonna is in the house of the three Boatwright sisters who operate a thriving beekeeping. Maternal August Boatwright (Queen Latifah), the two outliers, which in their tender sister May (Sophie Okonedo) is pleased with the civil rights skeptical June Boatwright (Alicia Keys), but initially rejected.

Among the equally self-confident as Afro-American Rosaleen increasingly flourishing, while Lily is based on skin color and origin in the Boatwright household formed initially as a foreign body feels.

Only gradually it takes confidence to open in the daily production of honey compared to August and the patient with the daring young blacks Zachary (Tristan Wild's) even their first kiss. But the reality in 1964, the ubiquitous racism gets Lily as well as her angry father. In order to be truly free, must be Lily of the painful past and learn what secrets their deceased mother with Tiburon and the Boatwright sisters connects.

The black sisterhood

The line between well-made and only when well intentioned is important with such a charged narrative will naturally narrow. Some people say, who in his life, only one American novel reads, it should be Mark Twain's "Huckleberry Finn" grab. The author Sue Monk Kidd has surely read Twain, and even on top of Henry David Thoreau, the Bible and edifying literature of all kinds Perhaps some metaphors work so aggressively to fit interpersonal conflict all too easily into the similitude term and follow a dramatic twists equal moral lessons.

BEES THE GUARDIAN (USA 2008)

Director: Gina Prince-Bythewood
Screenplay: Gina Prince-Bythewood
Cast: Dakota Fanning, Hilarie Burton, Queen Latifah
Production Company: Donner 'Company, Fox Searchlight Pictures, Overbrook Entertainment
Distributor: Fox
Running time: 110 minutes
Start: 23 April 2009

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Even Queen Latifah intuitive Imkerin exudes so much wisdom in the sunlit landscape that the film in some scenes is threatening to a social critique without the sting, and with his magical realism, similar to sticky-sweet as honey to the sumptuous advised.

But fortunately this is not Goldilocks and the three bears problem solving: Davor keep the film in addition to his considerable faith, not least, the acting performances. By Paul Bettanys broken although widowers would like to see a lot more, but to get a great Jennifer Hudson, the defiant Rosaleen lends an unwavering stance, and Alicia Keys as a proto-feminist heroine enough opportunity to shine.

Heart formation in honey

Dakota Fanning in her turn, provides a virtuoso display the special quality of this educational book: In a clever reversal of popular stereotypes, it is neglected here, finally, the White Trash Girl Lily, by the encounter with liberal and enlightened African Americans needed his heart is education.

Fanning, formerly of the fruit of the dwarf Method Acting, successfully jump into the incomparably more complex specialist roles brilliantly puberty. The concern that Hollywood's favorite problem child like so many minor stars will not miss the connection, anyway seems unfounded: Currently it is for the continuation of the successful Vampirrromanze "Twilight" in front of the camera. Dakota Fanning And if it as an undead adolescent plays, then sounds like another lovely challenge in a dream career from trauma.