Yes, a good film. A different spin the the post apocalyptic film, with sisters and their father spotlighted in a family style of drama when a major, unexplained black out sets it. People panic, gas runs out, stores are empty. You get the picture.
A feeling of dread hits when the father passes during a freak accident, leaving a somewhat unprepared pair of sisters to fend for themselves in what turn out to be a very cruel world. (just in a smaller sample size) The film is beautifully and tastefully handled, even during some some of the tougher scenes (one of a rape of one of the sisters, one a pig killing). I do see one of the leading reviewers focused on that, and condemns the killing, but you can bet this was a pig/boar that was hunted or part of a butchery prop, so settle down with the self righteous rant.
It feels a bit "Into the Wild" with it's instinct to survive and learning how to, meets elements of "The Road", just without the utter despair and bleakness of Hillcoat's underground classic rendition of McCarthy's novel.
The survival aspect of the story was interesting, and the sense of lawlessness was there, instilled with uneasy scenes that gave you the sense without exploiting with violent scenes. The heavy handed relationship aspect of the story and the entitled sister weighed things down a bit for me. She was interested in the metronome and coming back from an injury as a dancer while the grid collapses around them. Got to me, as a character flaw, much the way Christopher McCandless (Into the Wild) got to me. Selfish and entitled. Her sister, portrayed by Ellen Page (and masterfully, though not necessarily a fan of) evens her out with her "hippie-online college-activist" role.
All in all a good film. Flawed but easy to overlook with good script, good cinematography and interesting story.
Seemed to wilt towards the end as it weighed down in the melodramatic choices of having the baby, conceived out of rape, and the burning down of the house they were presumably raised in. 6/10
A feeling of dread hits when the father passes during a freak accident, leaving a somewhat unprepared pair of sisters to fend for themselves in what turn out to be a very cruel world. (just in a smaller sample size) The film is beautifully and tastefully handled, even during some some of the tougher scenes (one of a rape of one of the sisters, one a pig killing). I do see one of the leading reviewers focused on that, and condemns the killing, but you can bet this was a pig/boar that was hunted or part of a butchery prop, so settle down with the self righteous rant.
It feels a bit "Into the Wild" with it's instinct to survive and learning how to, meets elements of "The Road", just without the utter despair and bleakness of Hillcoat's underground classic rendition of McCarthy's novel.
The survival aspect of the story was interesting, and the sense of lawlessness was there, instilled with uneasy scenes that gave you the sense without exploiting with violent scenes. The heavy handed relationship aspect of the story and the entitled sister weighed things down a bit for me. She was interested in the metronome and coming back from an injury as a dancer while the grid collapses around them. Got to me, as a character flaw, much the way Christopher McCandless (Into the Wild) got to me. Selfish and entitled. Her sister, portrayed by Ellen Page (and masterfully, though not necessarily a fan of) evens her out with her "hippie-online college-activist" role.
All in all a good film. Flawed but easy to overlook with good script, good cinematography and interesting story.
Seemed to wilt towards the end as it weighed down in the melodramatic choices of having the baby, conceived out of rape, and the burning down of the house they were presumably raised in. 6/10