“Wildcat” – Claws out [MOVIE REVIEW]
“Wildcat,” Ethan Hawke’s audacious film about Flannery O’Connor, tries for the kind of gothic approach that this Southern writer might have liked. Most ambitious was his desire to reintroduce O’Connor, considered one of the leaders of Southern Gothic literature, a group that included William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams and Carson McCullers. This style often included elements of the grotesque, supernatural (either in thought or deed), and flawed characters, sometimes realistic, more often extreme. Flannery’s fiction was further enhanced by her strong religious beliefs and her complex relationship with racial prejudice. That she has been largely forgotten outside serious literature circles is something Hawke wanted to correct. Hawke took a very novel approach in introducing an audience to her life, times and works, intermingling both biography and fiction, her fiction. Opening on her explaining to her New York publisher that she states that she was amenable to notes on her work but not a complete rewrite, and certainly not with an outline. She is a soft-spoken, not unattractive, polite woman with a steely demeanor. Intelligent, she will not suffer fools, even those who are paying…
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