Where the Crawdads Sing: Nature and Tragedy

Written by Alya (Kru ‘19)

“The marsh knows about death and doesn’t necessarily define it as tragedy, certainly not a sin, it understands that every creature does what it must to survive.”

First thing that I knew immediately was they wanted to show us how incredible mother nature is. The jaw-dropping shots were meant to tell the audience how mother nature has thrived and how much it has provided to us. The movie also contains the most beautiful words of biology, about how much plants and animals changed through time to adjust to the ever-shifting of earth, and how certain individuals suit better than the specific others which had to suffer and die.

The existence of the main protagonist, Kya (Daisy Edgar-Jones), successfully carried the message all to the better. Kya was portrayed as the loner, the neglected, the outcast; The Marsh Girl. Being an outcast made her learn from the wild where no one else would teach her. Karakter Kya membuat gue merasa bahwa keberadaan gue sangatlah jauh dengan alam dibandingkan Kya, who finds the amusement of collecting stuffs from nature, the give and take relationship she had, and her secret safe place she was once told by her Ma to hide from her Pa, “hide around where the crawdads sing”. Complications started after Kya was accused of killing her former lover, Chase Andrews (Harris Dickinson). The movie then slowly revealed several drawbacks for being born as a female, especially when you’re outcasted. But after a series of woes, Kya was finally able to outgrow the misfortunes within the rules of nature.

….to be the kind of species which had to suffer and die or to be the female praying mantis which had to do anything to survive?

(Sketch by Teva (Kru ‘19)