This is one of the more bizarre movies I've seen - mostly because I don't think it's intended to be, but the list of ridiculous situations/events just goes on and on.
So the power goes out - they drive into town and the store is already completely emptied!! What? I mean they never explain what causes the blackout so why did the locals IMMEDIATELY go into long term survival mode?
Their dad hurts himself with a chainsaw - it's an ugly wound, but not immediately life threatening, but he dies in seconds! OK
So - the writers have now arrived at the story they want to tell - they've got rid of the father, leaving the girls on their own, to fend for themselves in the middle of nowhere (well not quite, because there's a few other properties on the same "street"), with little fuel, but seemingly an almost endless supply of food.
An eternity passes before they attempt to do any serious foraging, and then presumably on her first attempt otherwise she'd have known the rifle recoil would push her out the tree, she brings down a pig. FIRST ATTEMPT! Other than this and some berry and herb collecting, they seem to survive for over a year on the food in the house.
The house looks amazing, but the roof starts leaking (they make no attempt to fix the leak), and then part of the roof caves in - hmm. They then decide that the house is unsalvageable and USING THEIR PRECIOUS FUEL, burn it down??!!? And go off to live in the woods having shown no sign of any ability to do anything practical like REPAIR THE FRIGGIN ROOF. How exactly do they expect to survive now? We'll never know because that's where the movie ends.
There are a couple of scenes that are quite moving, but set against such an absurd plot, I just wish I'd not wasted my time watching it.
So the power goes out - they drive into town and the store is already completely emptied!! What? I mean they never explain what causes the blackout so why did the locals IMMEDIATELY go into long term survival mode?
Their dad hurts himself with a chainsaw - it's an ugly wound, but not immediately life threatening, but he dies in seconds! OK
So - the writers have now arrived at the story they want to tell - they've got rid of the father, leaving the girls on their own, to fend for themselves in the middle of nowhere (well not quite, because there's a few other properties on the same "street"), with little fuel, but seemingly an almost endless supply of food.
An eternity passes before they attempt to do any serious foraging, and then presumably on her first attempt otherwise she'd have known the rifle recoil would push her out the tree, she brings down a pig. FIRST ATTEMPT! Other than this and some berry and herb collecting, they seem to survive for over a year on the food in the house.
The house looks amazing, but the roof starts leaking (they make no attempt to fix the leak), and then part of the roof caves in - hmm. They then decide that the house is unsalvageable and USING THEIR PRECIOUS FUEL, burn it down??!!? And go off to live in the woods having shown no sign of any ability to do anything practical like REPAIR THE FRIGGIN ROOF. How exactly do they expect to survive now? We'll never know because that's where the movie ends.
There are a couple of scenes that are quite moving, but set against such an absurd plot, I just wish I'd not wasted my time watching it.