In fact, the complete movie turns around love and what people, adults or children, do for it. Ellis and Neckbone, the 2 children of 14, who find the fugitive Mud on an island of the Mississippi river, decide to help and protect him due to their current emotional situation. Ellis is as well in love as Mud, a child's love, his parents have their problems in their marriage and all this brings him to help and protect the fugitive Mud ( Matthew McConaughey). The fact that 2 children help a fugitive could be the most difficult part of the movie to believe, but just that part has been treated very good and it seems the only way to go for knowing the emotional situation of Ellis and Neckbone. The world is seen through the lenses of 2 children and that is done perfectly !!! Tye Sheridan puts the role of Ellis on another level. This child seems to be a born actor. He is just doing perfect. Then we have McConaughey. He has been in the movie business for a long time, but it is now that he convinces us of how good he is. In the "The Paperboy" he is good, in this movie he is excellent. A difficult role that he assumes perfectly. The way he talks, the accent, his love ... he is a Robinson Crusoe. All the supporting roles are very good put to the screen as well. Another aspect of the movie shows us the hard life of the people living and living from the Mississippi river; the nature, how adult children act for their age due to the hard life. It is another US that we normally don't see, not the one of heroes, money or small-village life. This movie is a bit different. It is as well a thriller, but not an action driven movie. Finally, I would say "A must see", astonishing.
Mud
(2012)
Excellent movie about love, the US-Mississippi life and life through child eyes
7 September 2013