The struggles of a sisterly connection are put to the test in symbolic darkness during a massive, freakish power outage in director Patricia Rozema’s intimate, gripping and quietly thoughtful post-apocalyptic drama Into the Forest. Academy Award-nominees Ellen Page (“Juno”) and Rachel Evan Wood (“Thirteen”) are the cinematic siblings in Rozema’s (“Kit Kittredge: An American Girl”) meditative, tension-inducing tale about the futuristic flirtation with global panic and disillusionment when the world faces the possibility of a modern-day meltdown in technological dependency. In short, **Into t... read the rest.
Great watch, would watch again, and can recommend.
Trigger Warning: sexual violence.
Ellen Page and Evan Rachel Wood carry most of this "mysterious dystopia" movie. I'm sure this story can be used as a parallel of what it is to be a woman in the modern world, but I see it as a survival story. The two aren't necessarily exclusive to another.
The "last person on the planet" trope is good, but even just the idea of living off-grid is daunting enough to the average person without it being the only option.
It's a sister story right alongside "Frozen" and "Kill La Kill" to me. The family... read the rest.
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