How the film stuttered on the first step It could have turned out very well, if not for the many disadvantages of pre-production, resting on the script. Dry dialogues for the sake of dialogue, undisclosed characters, incorrectly selected genre and incoherence of the narrative.
This is not a new concept. There was a friendly family, which was not quite friendly, and so the mother and father divorced, leaving the son Maxim mother. Soon his mother found his stepfather Maxima, which his real father, of course, was unhappy with. Wanting to spend time with their son, they both go on a hike. From the arrival on this continent / island, the film begins.
Honestly, starting from the first 15 minutes of the film, there are a lot of questions to the writer or the person who edited the script. The main plot line at first goes cheerfully, from time to time interrupting the landscapes of the national park in which the film was shot. But, like so many stories written in our time, this film reveals an ever-destroying belief in the ongoing problem of “conflict in every episode.” I don’t know why this is considered an art standard at the moment, but to see a father and son arguing from scratch every 3 minutes, and then quickly reconcile in 10 seconds to create the next conflict is rather strange. Literally, the first half of the film is sucked out of the finger conflicts, accompanied by dry and non-living dialogue, which even the play of the actors does not save.
Yes, I think the actors did well. Yes, there are some moments because of which I did not believe in the reality of certain body movements of the father or act out emotional moments by the son, but such minuses are easily pronounced in the ear, and then immediately forgotten. Another question is with the written lines that made the son a first-grader, then an adult man, very much fond of the philosophy of being, etc.
I also want to talk about the man who edited the final result of the film. I can understand when dimming is used to take the viewer to a new scene or simply to put an iconic point on the plot, thereby showing what is next only more interesting. But the number of transitions “in” and “out” of dimming exceeds all possible norms. Because of this kind of transition at the beginning of the film, I inadvertently wondered if I entered the room and maybe this is just the trailer for the film I came to, and the film is in a completely different place.
The most important thing that bothered me was the question of writing characters. Sometimes it seemed that the main characters were needed only for the beginning of the plot, where, as in any Slasher film, they would be killed without revealing them, then show the real protagonists. But this did not happen, and therefore we have: a nervous, modest, and at the same time talkative father, constantly changing his mood; a son who talks in complex sentences, as well as a man from the hut, who at first did not know how to speak, but after a few seconds sharply remembers and the rest of the film continues to quietly rant.
I will not say that the film is bad, but it is very difficult to call it worthy at least once. Perhaps, adding more disclosure at least his father and changing his conflict paradigm, as well as changing the genre, because from the thriller there are only 2 otherworldly moments, this film could already be recommended to friends.
