SoSheOhPathix
01-07-2010, 10:13 AM
http://www.grrr.co.za/forum/MGalleryItem.php?id=22It seems there is a new genre of films hitting the scene... the post-apocalypse survivor's tale of woe.
In this one, the world is... ummm.... well... the technical term would be 'totally fucked'.
Some sort of catasrophe has occurred (they never really tell you what happened) and it appears to be meteor-related.
Basically, all plant, bird and animal (apparently, humans aren't animals, but let's not go there. It'll only upset Fly :blahblah: ) life has been obliterated. A cloud of smoke/ash/dust envelopes the world, and the few surviving people are in deep shit.
Viggo (ladies eye-candy of 'Lord of the Rings' Aragon fame) plays the lead of a father trying to get his son to safety, which he believes is at the coast, and hopefully find some food and water along the way.
He has flashbacks along the way, describing how he got into this pitiful situation with his wife (Charlize Theron), and why he's running around outside, instead of holed up somewhere.
Ladies, don't get all excited. This is a post-apocalypse film. He isn't all buff, nicely made-up, and dressed spiffy. He's a mess, as is pretty much everything.
Society has collapsed. Rule of force is the order of the day, a la 'Mad Max', only worse, and possibly more realistic. Everyone you meet is a potential attacker/killer, and the 'goodness of man' is gone. Expect the worst, as that's probably all you're going to get...
I found this film to be somewhat depressing, and although there was very little graphic violence (there are a fair number of dead people lying about, which get pillaged and whatnot, but they're just painted dummies), my missus had trouble sleeping after watching it. The psychology of this film is what is disturbing.
Not because it was gross, but because the message carried across is in no way a positive one. There is a small element to the script which tries to tell us to 'carry the torch', but it is more than smothered by the gloom of desperation, and degeneration of men into something less than animals. Actually, it is dragged off into the bushes, raped, murdered and eaten by the gloom.
My sugestion, if you are going to watch this, is to rent a comedy to watch right afterwards, or stock up on anti-depressants.
I do, however, recommend it, becuause it is well-written, well-acted, and 'worthwhile' in that it has something to say (IMO).
In this one, the world is... ummm.... well... the technical term would be 'totally fucked'.
Some sort of catasrophe has occurred (they never really tell you what happened) and it appears to be meteor-related.
Basically, all plant, bird and animal (apparently, humans aren't animals, but let's not go there. It'll only upset Fly :blahblah: ) life has been obliterated. A cloud of smoke/ash/dust envelopes the world, and the few surviving people are in deep shit.
Viggo (ladies eye-candy of 'Lord of the Rings' Aragon fame) plays the lead of a father trying to get his son to safety, which he believes is at the coast, and hopefully find some food and water along the way.
He has flashbacks along the way, describing how he got into this pitiful situation with his wife (Charlize Theron), and why he's running around outside, instead of holed up somewhere.
Ladies, don't get all excited. This is a post-apocalypse film. He isn't all buff, nicely made-up, and dressed spiffy. He's a mess, as is pretty much everything.
Society has collapsed. Rule of force is the order of the day, a la 'Mad Max', only worse, and possibly more realistic. Everyone you meet is a potential attacker/killer, and the 'goodness of man' is gone. Expect the worst, as that's probably all you're going to get...
I found this film to be somewhat depressing, and although there was very little graphic violence (there are a fair number of dead people lying about, which get pillaged and whatnot, but they're just painted dummies), my missus had trouble sleeping after watching it. The psychology of this film is what is disturbing.
Not because it was gross, but because the message carried across is in no way a positive one. There is a small element to the script which tries to tell us to 'carry the torch', but it is more than smothered by the gloom of desperation, and degeneration of men into something less than animals. Actually, it is dragged off into the bushes, raped, murdered and eaten by the gloom.
My sugestion, if you are going to watch this, is to rent a comedy to watch right afterwards, or stock up on anti-depressants.
I do, however, recommend it, becuause it is well-written, well-acted, and 'worthwhile' in that it has something to say (IMO).