The film is presented as a thriller, which already initially deceives the viewer, since the thriller here does not smell. A typical drama, in quiet tones with a discreet plot and a complete lack of detail and explanation of the plot throughout the film. After reading what the plot should be about, we hope to explain the reason why the electricity turned off, or hope for an interesting narrative of what people will do in difficult times, to learn their psychology, however, in this film you will not be told about it.
The plot of the picture stretches very slowly, the picture is not particularly interesting to watch, in the first 20 minutes there is a tragic setback, however, the events do not cause tears, due to the lack of attachment to the characters. We will not know anything about them. When did your mother die? We won't know. Why was there a power outage? Who knows. What dance contest? Don't know. And we won't know anything about the whole movie. Here, the audience, look at the beautiful strong women, and the beautiful landscape with soothing music.
In addition to the present questions on the plot, there are also quite peculiar scenario solutions. The ending generally seemed to me confused, infantile and ill-conceived. I understand that the action takes place in a relatively warm climate, but how in such a short time the house collapsed so quickly. It is unrealistic, or the house was made of snot and sticks.
Now consider acting, there are not so many scenes where you can demonstrate a powerful acting, but Evan Wood showed herself quite a bright actress, in some scenes she attracted all attention to herself. Elliot Paige also played quite well, but there was no scene where she could prove herself. The rest of the actors were in the background, there were few scenes with their presence.
Someone to praise in this film is the cameraman. There are just amazing shooting of the forest, beautiful angles of shooting actresses, beautiful transitions from stage to stage, the musical accompaniment was also suitable for the scenes taking place. The film is absolutely beautiful.
To summarize, I want to highlight the pros and cons of this tape.
I’d like to add the following:
Operator work, sound accompaniment;
Acting, let there were not so many moments of manifestation of these qualities;
Psychology of what is happening.
I would have thought of it as:
-Sluggish, weak plot;
A large number of questions after the film, which will not be answered;
It's not very interesting to watch.
Bottom Line: If you want to watch a quiet movie that has little action but a psychological background, you might want to pay attention to it. If you need a bright plot that will capture you from the first minutes, then this film is clearly not right.
4 out of 10
The film offers us a look at the next version of “The End of the World”, in this case, in the truest sense of the word. In the United States, there was a massive blackout, and all Americans were left without their favorite Facebook and Instagram. What can we say, if without electricity hospitals can not function properly (transmitted on the radio), the population was in panic, cases of looting increased. However, since the film is called “In isolation”, the events will unfold only on the farm of two sisters, Nell and Eva, who are played by talented actresses (known to me from the films “Inception”, “X-Men”, “All Life Before Your Eyes”, “Wrestler”), pulling out the whole inconspicuous plot with their live acting.
The previous commentator wrote that this film is not about survival, but about relationships. Let me disagree and agree at the same time. After all, there is no one without the other: it is psychologically extremely difficult to remain alone in a post-apocalyptic world, which means that it will be much harder to survive (unless you are a complete sociopath, of course). On the relationship of relatives in the post-apocalypse, the filmmakers make a special emphasis. True, the main characters were lucky with their relatives, or there are such relatives, worse than strangers. The film is soulful, designed to cause the viewer a desire to appreciate his family and stick to his relatives, at all costs.
The disadvantages include the fact that this film is more like the first series of a good series (such as the series “Society”). If you develop the idea, you could shoot a lot of series. But it would have turned out to be some “Walking Dead”, only without zombies.
6 out of 10
Unknown global collapse plunges humanity almost into the Stone Age. There is no electricity, no means of communication, and without this our life today is extremely difficult to imagine. You have to survive only due to your own skills and abilities, as well as what you managed to get in the store in an instant empty shelves.
A family of three faces this situation. Father Robert (Callum Keith Rennie) and his two daughters Nell (Ellen Page) and Eva (Evan Rachel Wood). This collapse caught the family in the forest house, where Eva was preparing for the dance exams. When they woke up one day and found out that there was no electricity, they realized that they would have to live based on what was left at hand. Fortunately, there is a roof over your head. But the question of fuel and food supplies - sooner or later would make itself felt.
Soon the number of actors is reduced to two - Nell and Eva have to get along with each other and look for points of contact in sisterly relationships. Especially when they have different points of view.
In fact, Isolated by Patricia Rosema is less about survival and more about the relationship between two people. If you look at the conditions in which the characters of the film exist, you can envy them. After all, not every hero of the film about survival and the struggle with nature, there will be a spacious house, there will be necessary things and utensils, there will be books, there will be fire and food! Remember the movie "Alive" about the crash of a Uruguayan plane in the Andes and compare the conditions for survivors and the conditions created for two sisters!
Throughout the film, Nell and Eve don’t need such trivial things as matches, candles and salt. Although if you estimate the time interval that they were forced to live in a forest house, they would have to buy a candle factory to last there for a year and a half! It is also strange that the realization of the need to look for food and take decisive measures (go hunting), they come at a time when there is nothing at all. Although they themselves knew perfectly well that they would have to live in this house for a very long time.
And it is more than strange that such a nice and seemingly modern house turns out to be such an unreliable haven. What happened to him would have taken much longer than was shown. But it is noteworthy that in this episode there is symbolism, because the decaying structure is contrasted with a new life being born, as if giving hope to the heroines for a further happy existence.
Although the finale of the picture, to put it mildly, surprises and makes you ask a quite reasonable question: and what next? You decided to say goodbye to your home and crossed the Rubicon. What's next? Where to go? Where can I find help? The ending remains open and Rosem’s patricia itself gives the viewer the opportunity to think about the future fate of the characters, in no way participating in their lives. No explanation of the causes of the collapse, no information about whether the situation is better somewhere, no information about what lies ahead. Just a clear field wherever you look. Or rather the forest.
And if at the very beginning of the film there was information that something more terrible happened before the power outage, it would be clear why so few people met the characters, why literally in a couple of days all the shops were empty, and gasoline disappeared from the gas station.
But look at you. I do not impose my opinion on anyone.
Self-isolation for no reason - the meaning of this film
“Into the Forest” (or “In Isolation”, thanks to our translators for the “relevant” title of the film, released in Russia 5 years after the world premiere) is a drama directed by Patricia Rosem, telling about a family of two sisters and their father living in a house in the middle of the forest. One day, suddenly the electricity in the city (or in the state or in the country, the scale of the disaster is unclear) goes out. And after the father dies from an accident, the sisters have to unite and survive in the circumstances, as well as not lose the remnants of family ties, love and humanity.
The theme of environmental disasters and their consequences in the form of an “apocalypse”, even if local, is certainly very good for such dramatic stories – you can recall, for example, “The Road”, where everything human was lost and a severe struggle for survival began, and kindness and sympathy cost nothing. But in this film, this theme, touched upon at the very beginning, does not develop at all and generally seems superfluous; the film takes place in the near future, so for some reason we are shown a glimpse of some fancy screens, and after that for more than a year the girls live without knowing any hardships; as if they have a bunker under their house full of non-perishable food, because all they collect is berries, and go hunting for the first time a year and a half later (!). Moreover, the surrounding world seems to have undergone no changes; the empty store is the maximum of the consequences shown, and the mad citizens are not shown at all; a concerned salesman and a couple of rednecks on the road, and that’s it. It would seem that the richest house and two weak girls inside - I do not want to rob, but no.
Let’s say the film doesn’t focus on social and environmental themes; it’s just the background, and most importantly, the sisters’ relationships. Yes, but if the character of Ellen Page at first seems at least a little adequate, then her sister played by Evan Rachel Wood from the very beginning behaves like an infantile capricious idiot without a drop of common sense. By the end of the film, both can be expected only the most rash, illogical and idiotic decisions that can not lead to any successful survival in principle. The story also features the first sister’s boyfriend (I don’t remember the names, I’m sorry), but the love line fades very quickly, leading absolutely nowhere. And for most of the rest of the film, there's nothing going on that's any more dramatic or interesting. And yes, instead of better revealing the details of the survival of the heroines or building their relationships normally without stupid cliches and cliches, the film was stuffed with a lot of unnecessary and too detailed physiological abomination from peeling skin from hands and menstrual blood on underpants to detailed dismemberment and disembowelment of the killed animal. It seems as realistic, and in the theme, but the creators clearly did not skimp on large-scale and long-term plans, so all the emotions that they can achieve from the viewer is mortal boredom, periodically replaced by disgust.
Perhaps, from a complete failure, the film saves a good soundtrack and good acting - all three and a half actors in the film coped very well; in particular, gave an excellent performance by Ellen Page, in every emotion which was immediately believed. Rachel Wood and Callum Keith Rennie as their father also played convincingly. But if you do not take acting as the only reason to watch the film – it is a dull, unrealistic, empty spectacle with an unrealized potential of plot and messages, which will bring to your audience experience, except that Page’s naked chest. For other audience needs - definitely not here.
What would happen if electricity simply evaporated from our lives, along with all the well-established, familiar benefits of human society that depend on electricity? Will Bruce Willis, tired of his exploits, decide that he is too old to save us? Stay in a comfortable chair, Bruce, this movie is not about that.
Painting Patricia Rosema "In the Woods" was surprisingly coldly received by the audience. Perhaps because the planet descending into chaos was not saved by patriotic and ubiquitous Americans in the last seconds before the complete collapse of human civilization, or perhaps because while valiant (and not very) men are heroically dying, they are going mad from the brutality in the causal place, brave ladies take their salvation into their own tender hands.
However, the film is really about women, where a new post-apocalyptic world, slowly entering a new era, acts as a backdrop for this story.
This film has everything to be a revelation for all lovers of non-screaming novels, in which the end of the world comes slowly and slowly, and does not fall on you suddenly at 6 a.m., knocking a mug of tea from your still unawakened hands and shooting a pile of all possible cosmo-natural-man-made disasters in your sleepy face. Here the narrative is logical and consistent. Every scene is necessary and meaningful.
Ellen Page and Evan Rachel Wood really live the lives of their characters, which, especially nicely, are not walking sets of templates and clichés of those films that are crammed to nausea by positive or negative characters.
Of course, the unspoken law of all dystopian stories is that if the apocalypse doesn’t kill you, it makes you stronger. And if your smart home rests in peace, and the all-encompassing Mother Nature sneaks up on your door, she may not even need to knock. She only very unobtrusively pushes the heroines to a gradual rebirth, pacification of their egoism, rethinking their goals, priorities and family values.
Liberation, renaissance, the destruction of the foundations, reaching their climax by the end of the film, make the ending as it should be.
A candid, incredibly underrated piece definitely deserves a 9 out of 10 rating.
Starting to watch this film looking at mixed ratings and reviews, you involuntarily feel like a film critic, who already needs to think about what to write in the review of the picture. It’s one of the few movies that made me think three times before unequivocally saying bad or good.
The film is based on the novella Into the forest of the same name in 1996, and since I did not get to read it, I will write without comparing the book and the film itself.
Plot
The story of the picture tells us about the near future (although the first question arises: where are the signs of this future?, of course, at the time of the publication of the novel in 1996, there were no flat TVs, voice assistants and smartphones for every person, but in 2015 it is no longer a luxury, but ordinary). Two sisters are trying to survive the so-called "apocalypse" of a widespread power outage. And since people in this “future” do not know how to live without their electrical devices, accordingly, they need to learn to survive in a new atmosphere for them. By the way, in the film, 10 minutes of screen time are allocated to show the adaptation of teenagers to difficult living conditions without electricity. All right, let's say it was off-screen, and they learned to survive with survival books. These books, by the way, which in the days of universal access to the Internet, were kept by the father of the sisters. Apparently, he knew and was preparing for such a coincidence as the apocalypse.
Well, if at all to say about the story of the film, it is very raw, but nevertheless there are no serious shoals in it, from which facepalms fly packs in the face. Perhaps the motivations of some of the characters are not well understood. For example, an irresistible desire to dance to the music of one of the sisters, even with a critical shortage of fuel for the generator. Of course, it is not for me to judge women’s thoughts during certain difficult situations, the author of the novel probably knows better about it, since she is a woman. But in general, if you do not dig into such schools, then you will get quite a good, sustained dramatic story, in the center of which various kinds of experiences of girls.
Actors
The main actors in the film are not very popular, except for Helen Page (who managed to light up in a couple of major projects), but there are no questions about their work. A very large palette of emotions issued by them, in which you believe and want to experience. And of course, I want to note the fact that thanks to the build and “childish” face of Helen Page, in her 28 years she can play a teenage girl, and easily change roles for more serious roles.
Operational work and soundtrack
When the work is done well, there are no questions and nagging. In this case, too, everything is in perfect order. High level of shooting, editing and the entire technical department of the film. The soundtrack is also incredibly pleasing, since for the drama it is written very competently, and most importantly with an emphasis on the experiences of the characters.
Conclusion
In the end, I want to note that this movie is not about surviving in the forest during the apocalypse and not a synopsis for the series “The Walking Dead”. It is a separate, melodramatic expression of women’s experiences associated with various tragedies that happened to them. Movie-expression of women's actions related to family, survival and protection.
Underrated, dramatic, filled with strong scenes of experiences of the main characters picture, with a great soundtrack and a lot of emotions.
Reading a few reviews on this site, it will immediately become clear that false expectations largely spoiled the impression of the film. To think that this is another clichéd post-apocalyptic film, a stupid and wrong occupation. And especially if you are not familiar at least briefly with the work of Ellen Page (who also worked as a director), then it is unlikely that you have even watched it to the end. Since the two main characters and director were girls, it is not difficult to guess that men will not appear in the best light.
And in general, as was emphasized in some reviews, the film is really not about survival, but about relationships. And this is the right decision, which adds something not mainstream to the world of cinema. This is a film that you need not only to watch an hour and a half, but also to think about, think about these sisters, about this house (which, in turn, plays a huge role and not only as a place of residence), and set the internal priorities of these ladies with the external factors that are happening.
It is difficult to talk about the plot of this movie, it is easier to see it yourself. No, it's clearly not from the series: "Left without words" (in a good way), but rather just made you think about some everyday and not very things in your life.
Well, of course, it is impossible not to mention the beautiful performance of Ellen Page and her slightly less beautiful movie sister. At the beginning of the film, it seemed that Eva was out of place, the actress was wrongly selected, but as a result everything falls into place.
I don’t know if I’ll ever want to watch this movie, but it’s definitely worth watching at least once.
First, after reading the announcement and reviews, I really wanted to see “In the Forest”. The theme of post-apocalyptic robinsonade is very fertile, but is revealed only in literature and TV series about the dead. There are no zombies at all.
Secondly, it was not easy to find the film on the Internet.
The movie itself. It's very hard to resist spoilers. Perhaps the main thing that was not in this film was the very process of survival of two girls in a distant house. How did they survive a year and a half without any effort? Was it winter and walkers? Why didn't you hunt? What Uzbeks built this house for them? Rosema does not offer us any answers, getting off with one trip through mushrooms and berries. What I am saying is so far from reality... According to my experience in the summer of 2014, there would be no salt left in the store on the second day, let alone candles. Surely in a year and a half would have faced a much larger number of people. And much more dangerous. And why saw a tree a kilometer from the house?
It is clear that the film was not about survival. And about the relationship of two sisters, locked in sour conditions in a conditionally uninhabited place. Here it is worth noting the game of Paige and the thin fit Wood. Alas, this line is killed by the ending when Rosema makes a knee and throws the viewer the key idea of the film - all in the garden. The garden is fine, everyone survived, and these boys are like Bremen musicians. In the sense that their carpet is a flower glade, and the walls are giant pines.
May they die on the second day, dear Rosema.
It’s a shame, because the film kept interest at all distances.
Resume is not about survival in the way I would like to see it. It's a drama with such entourage. A negative assessment is a reaction to an infantile ending, which should also be a direct message to action.
4 out of 10
Those who live in a city, in an apartment, do not understand the fear that appears in a detached house. You think I'm kidding? Not at all, there is. Fear of the house - when you sleep in it at night, around a fence or fence, and there are no neighbors above and below, in apartments. There is darkness and the street, or wildness around. The roof fell, probably a bird. What the hell is a bird at night? Owl? Well, the owl flies neatly, inaudibly, and doesn't fall on the roof. Then who? Step like in the attic. And here is the feeling that someone is preparing to climb over the fence. Or not? Or is it? And if the house is on the fringes, far from people... The biggest plus gives the dog - it is always on guard, a bell. It is desirable that the mongrel is small, but a large Asian Alabai or Caucasian growls, running like a tiger around the yard. And if there are no dogs, then trouble. You won’t know who can or can’t walk around your house. At night.
The name - "In the forest", it is as always Russification, inept.
In the forest is the correct name. The family was not in the forest, she was forced to go to live in the forest, social change. To the forest is to escape a dying civilization. When the power of the LORD is over, the power of the LORD is over. When thieves, rapists and bandits come out of each crevice.
What two girls experienced at night, alone, in the forest more often, and especially knowing how the old way of life in their country collapsed - one can only guess. But the fear of a night’s sleep in a lonely house, the director showed for sure, she experienced it on herself. When it rains, you take steps. When even a gun loaded not only not soothes, but adds banal fear - what if a misfire? Run out of bullets and don't have time to reload? Lots of things.
The principle of salvation is no less strongly indicated - if you want to live, do not stand still, move, leave your native place too much, so as not to attract excessive envy. Any attempt to dig in only attracts a pack of jackals, they will simply burn out any fortified point. Only in silly fairy tales and novels, survivalists appear, with Kalash at the top. Do not forget that the Kalashnikovs have attackers, which can be much more.
And the harsh truth is that even against a slutty, a rapist, even a sports girl can be powerless, there's too much difference in metabolism and reaction. And you can get sick, doing even simple homework, you can die stupidly, but tragically. In this regard, the film is generally moralistic. It shows everything as it is.
There is some romance in this apocalypse, and the life of two sisters in a fabulous Canadian forest takes on its poetry. This picture tells not about survival, not about the end of the world, but only about the relationship of two girls in a difficult situation. The film fascinated me with the lack of predictable narrative, because the story could be told in a completely different way – with an intriguing twist, a vivid climax and a logical conclusion. It was possible to show the clash of two ways of thinking — rational and sensual, because our heroines are so different, so different sisters. Screaming, quarreling, or even blood to protect personal interests in the face of survival. Expected, but spectacular. This picture is completely devoid of entertainment, but you have to be a fool to put it in reproach. The film is saturated through the atmosphere of melancholy, and even the dangers of the apocalypse are not able to destroy it. Background orchestral music touches the soul, especially when you realize that the heroines of the picture were forced to live without it.
A lonely house in the middle of the forest, two beautiful girls and the difficulties they have to overcome together, and only together. Delightful landscapes, beautiful faces, modernist ballet and touching music - that is what makes this picture. And it doesn't matter where the sisters go or what caused the disaster, it's just the atmosphere. And the movie doesn’t get any less interesting.
Why did they decide to live in the forest? Well, maybe it's because my father decided to keep his girls from having bad memories. After all, the death of the mother ...
Maybe for other reasons. Oh, come on. Let's get to the heart of the movie. We have a small family (two girls and their father). One girl, a ballerina, is forced to dance every day due to a knee injury and a rather “old” age for such a professional career (age 28). The second girl is savvy in biology, preparing for the exam. And she will certainly have to use this knowledge. At the beginning of the picture, of course, one gets the impression that Eva is more serious, and Nelly, like all teenagers, wants to live life to the fullest.
But one day a terrible thing happens.
People’s lives are very dependent on electricity, and when there is a widespread blackout, the life of humanity is fundamentally changed.
The family goes to the city for food, but then decides to stay away from people. After all, when such a crisis occurs, animal instincts awaken in people. And your main survival tool is the gun. They will have to learn to survive without the benefits of civilization.
Their father always told them to be together, take care of each other and never give up.
And here's the point. It would seem like a blackout, not a big apocalypse. But when you know that without the light, not only you, but thousands of people around you, you begin to awaken a natural sense of fear. After all, even for the last gallon of gasoline, people can commit any kind of violence.
So there is a tragic incident that turns a small apocalypse into an apocalypse of truly huge proportions, for our main characters. They are alone in this forest, in this dark world. This is not only a physical challenge for them, but a spiritual and moral one. Even psychologically. After all, immerse two seemingly fragile girls in such a situation, a test at the cost of life. They're without electricity. A month, two, six months. They have a lot of pain, but they have to survive. And then Nelly shows himself from the other side. She is not just a teenager, but an independent woman, ready to stand up for her sister, not just herself. Taking a rifle, she goes deep into the woods, so inexperienced and awkward in terms of hunting. But she kills her first boar by falling from a tree. Such a seemingly simple and carrying nothing scene. But she tells us, or rather confirms it again. Our girls and their lives will never be the same again. The food ends, they begin to collect berries, make various jams from them. So to say, they return to the “stone age” bravo wandering around with a guide to berries. Of course, throughout the film, our girls are in constant tension, quarrels, do not understand. But this tragedy brings them together even more. They had never been so close to each other before.
Very atmospheric.
Their home seemed to be all that remained of their former life. It collapses at the behest of nature. New complexity. Where to go? Brooklyn? Where, according to rumors, there is food, electricity and even the opportunity to work. Or stay here, because there is a second, albeit much more modest, overnight.
Three of them. Still three? Or now.
This film is a tragic tale of what will happen when your familiar world collapses and something terrible appears before you – the Dark World.
At first thought simple, this film opens our eyes to many problems. Problems of natural resources, and most importantly the human person.
They say that man is the measure of all things.
Patricia Rosema gave us a deeply thought-out story and a reason to revisit this film more than once. This is an invaluable moment.
I would like to note a great work on the soundtrack. You do not think that the composers watched the video series 100 times to feel the essence of the heroines and give us a chic musical accompaniment.
Ellen Page and Rachel Wood played above all praise, there was a strong chemistry between them. They, like the director, have done a great job of getting closer to the characters.
Not fading emotions and experiences. This movie keeps you busy until the end.
Warm Canadian Forest Into does not mean a place, but a direction: not in the forest, but in the forest. Not life in nature, but immersion in nature - not an event, but a psychological slice of existence after a global catastrophe "without electricity" opens with his female look Canadian director. Is it permissible with such an amendment to forgive the filmmakers too warm weather in temperate latitudes for almost a year or a complete lack of interest in where electricity evaporated? There are many things women can forgive, especially if they reveal secrets about themselves. The main content of this film is the peculiarities of female psychology in the behavior of two sisters living after the disaster in a lonely but comfortable house in the middle of the forest, away from cities and highways. While random men dream of Boston promised, where rumors say there is light, food, and work, tied to the visible and tangible female look chooses for the benefit of staying at their home - the older Eva and the younger Nell remain to live with their canned food and a cozy fireplace. Eve is a dancer, and Nell has no real passion. Therefore, the focus in the film should shift more to Eve. Without your favorite music, you have to dance to the unbearable sound of a metronome - the girl almost goes crazy from the burning desire to use a meager supply of gasoline to start the generator, but her sister remains adamant. Interestingly, in the course of the film, in the struggle between reason and impulse, the girls change places several times. Without civilization, nature takes its course - canned food spoils, men become animals - and it is impossible to live by dancing. But brazenly breaking through the crevices and windows, nature still does not kill the modern woman, but makes her reassess herself and her main purpose. 140 years of electricity house of cards are formed not under the wind and rain, but under a much more powerful desire of a woman to be a woman - albeit without a man nearby (it is debatable, of course, but the film was shot by a woman, maybe she knows better), albeit without aspirin and chocolate, but with the power that is able to overcome the hardships of life in the forest - in the warm Canadian forest. 6 out of 10 Original
This film is original in its illogicality, or rather the complete lack of logic in one of the main characters. That’s probably what makes it more realistic. Yeah. People today are not adapted to such situations, even though, as one of the characters said, only 140 years we live with electricity? And how it got into our lives... No drug will break the average resident of a metropolis like a complete and irrevocable lack of energy.
I don’t know what would have happened if I had been in the shoes of these girls. But I think they were in a great situation. They live in the woods, in their own house: read what is in the village. What is much better than in the city: there are no crazy people, there is fuel, there is land, there are plants, there is water. There is a chance to live and survive! And to me, the only thing that these two had to do after they lost the only person who knew anything about life without electricity was: 1. to strengthen the house (put all the windows down (and do it immediately, not when it happened), to make some secret shelter with a secret passage, fence the site, in general, make a fortress), 2. never, under any circumstances, never part, 3. always keep a weapon with you (learn how to own it and, damn, hold it in your hands!). Indeed, if they followed these rules, they avoided the only serious problem that happened to them. In general, it seems that these “children of the electronic world” do not understand anything in life, in which there is no place for computers and technology. They, like small children, learn the unknown world around them from “ancient” books: these plants can be eaten, these plants cannot be eaten, this must be dried, and this must be eaten and so on and so forth.
One can see the evolution of the heroine Ellen Page: a kind of party lover, who does not tolerate life in the woods, suddenly becomes a full support for her older sister, and subsequently for her (sister) future child. And there is nothing surprising in this image of Ellen: such a logical continuation of the feminist (in the good sense of the word) theme: she will prick firewood, and gather food, and the boar will sink, and the last will give. But with the other sister, everything is not so well. Continuing to persevere in her dancing, she finds herself absolutely helpless in this anti-world. Although the heroine Ellen throughout the film also does not break away from her life goal, which no longer makes any sense: preparation for exams, this desire opens many books to her, which more than once help these two unfortunate. But the dances do not save either from uninvited "guests", from hunger, or anything else.
It's not the first time I've made this remark, but men are once again shown to be at their worst. The only decent male dies almost at the beginning. And although his death is not ridiculous at all, it is shown that way. Let us add to this the grief-lover who “loves” only somewhere in his dreams, and the scumbag (by which it is immediately obvious that he is a scumbag), who needs nothing more than his own satisfaction. Shit! Men! In all situations, is that the only thing that interests you? And always (in the movies) in such a vulgar and humiliating form! Yeah, that moment gave me goosebumps and made me turn inside out. In fact, this is what left the strongest trace after watching.
In general, the film raises a lot of perplexed questions, but I will leave them in order not to throw a bunch of spoilers.
The ending was the last match in my raging consciousness: "What?!" No comments. More precisely, too much thought about the lack of logic, as was noted at the beginning.
I also want to point out that I think the movie ended with the most interesting. Because how they will live on is a very good question. Personally, I already have a great picture. That is exactly what will happen.
Well, a bit of a psychedelic movie. One of the ones that is immediately written down. A lot of comments and a question about what’s good. And having good ideas, that's just to think them up has an inquisitive viewer himself and alone. I don't know, maybe the book is more complete and profound. Look... for thought.
7 out of 10
Lower? Nope. Below are much worse films. And Ellen Page adds. But you can't put it higher.
If you are not a sister, and you do not have a sister, and you did not have a sister – “In the woods” will be a real challenge for you. But if you miss all the sarcasm earlier, then Patricia Rosem has filmed a good story, which unfortunately will more affect only part of the audience, namely those who are able to feel the full meaning of the transmitted plot.
Formally, actions are developing very, very much in the near future, you can even risk saying in two or three years, but this moment in the whole history plays a small role, and serves only as a pretext for what is happening. There is no apocalypse in the picture, although the chaos covered people after the power outage, after which two sisters and their father remained in their remote country house.
By and large, pictures about the formation of boys as men at least plenty, and in most cases they are very meaningful and good. Therefore, I believe that the female part also has the right to stories and alphabets about the growing up of young girls and their growing up. Another thing is that the viewer who accidentally got in front of the screen without much interest in the topic is unlikely to be able to appreciate this film, and even more so enjoy it.
Alas, I managed to cope with the viewing with difficulty, although I think it is not only my merit, but also the director, who shot her film rather dreary and sluggishly. As a result, only for those who really want to see this film, curiosity and time-killing I advise to satisfy another film.
4 out of 10
If only I knew what electricity was...
Two sisters live in a forest of giant trees. In the dream house. One is preparing for the exam and half is littered with books. The second soon to dance in a contest and her half home is a dance class. The wires run out of electricity. They continue to study by candlelight, to the sound of a metronome. A month, two... There may be no Canada, there may be famine, there may be an epidemic. Whatever. The forest they have always been guests in is beginning to seep in. The roof leaks, the beams rot, the food runs out. But they worked diligently and are now ready to go out to meet him.
Even Strugatsky divided the fiction into two parts by walling. One communism, the sun is always shining, the shops have free beer. On the other, nuclear mushrooms grow, the remnants of humanity are burned by combat robots. There is a third direction before our eyes. A quiet future without tantrums, people live their lives. Into The Forest may not be the perfect rep, but it's close. There are very few incidents in the film. First they turned off the electricity, that’s fantastic.
The male apocalypse is hectic. There are a lot of gunshots in it, there are cases of cannibalism, you have to go somewhere. Into The Forest was made by women. Screenwriter, director, two actresses. Ellen Page was also a producer. The female version turned out to be more modest - about the journey inwards. Now that the outside world has finally been shut down. It is great to find in yourself and a loved one a replacement for the Internet and TV.
No one wanted to print the movie. Writer Jean Hegland tried to attach it for several years, received 25 rejections, until a small feminist publishing house took over the publication. Printed almost at a loss. She made $7,000 and was very happy. And then suddenly the book was interested in a large publisher. Purchased rights, published in 14 countries. Now the movie has been made.
Gene Hegland says Paige was the engine behind the project. “She fell in love with the book, so I trusted her. She had a deep understanding of the story. And you can see in the interview who their dad is. The day is not far off when we will see Ellen Page in the director’s chair.
The film is based on the second half of the novel. So the power outage wasn't so sudden. Before that, there was a war, an epidemic. The family was ready at the end of the world. Stock up on food, tools, survival books. This removes many questions that have arisen after viewing.
“Into the Forest” is perhaps one of the few films of 2015, distinguished by originality and brilliant expression of the main idea. If I had the opportunity to compile a rating of the 10 best films of 2015, then “Into the Forest” would definitely be included in it, and at the same time would not be in last place.
First of all, I want to mention the acting - I personally liked how the actors expressed the necessary emotions. The film really has a couple of scenes in which, according to the director’s idea, the viewer should feel the same feelings as the heroes of the story, put himself in their place and apply to his own life the circumstances that happened to the characters of the picture. In such a scene, an excellent atmosphere was created, one of the main components of which was acting.
In addition, the film has excellent musical accompaniment. And music appears exactly at those moments and in the form in which it is necessary. Music appears when the viewer needs to be influenced emotionally, it participates in the creation of that unsurpassed atmosphere, music also appears when the viewer does not need to be bored, when he needs to be encouraged to further observe the characters, to reflect on what he has already seen.
In general, the film is shot quite well, the moments in which you need to pay enough attention to detail are conveyed perfectly, and the moments that are not important from the point of view of the main idea are omitted or described in passing. Close-ups are only present where they are needed, and I would not say there should be fewer or more. The film has a large number of beautiful landscapes, which allows you to take a second away from the story and think a little. To a moderate degree, the frequent change of location of the camera adds another plus to the film.
Now for the story. From the credits, you can understand that the film is based on the novel, which explains the high semantic load of the picture. Into the Forest tells the story of a small family from the future, living in a large house in the middle of a forest thicket, namely the period of her life after a global catastrophe, when electricity disappeared. I remember Daniel Handler’s novel Player 1. What's going to happen to us?, and I think it really has something in common with both the film itself and the book it was made from. In order not to spoil, I can not tell you more about the plot.
“Into the Forest” is a film about how short and important life is. This is a film about who we owe the most in this world, what human values really are. This is a film about not clinging to the past and trying to predict the future. This picture calls us to think about nature, not just about ourselves, to appreciate what we have while striving for more, and not to abandon those who value you more than anyone else.
In general, I highly recommend this film for viewing for its originality, semantic load and beauty. “Into the Forest” has very few disadvantages, and the most significant of them is the insufficient retention of the viewer’s attention in individual scenes with monotonous development of events, so I believe that the film deserves to be released.
9 out of 10
It seems that the script “In the Woods” (the film is based on the novel of the same name by Jean Hegland.) was written by a “blonde”, for whom the apocalypse is the absence of television, the Internet, chocolates, toilet paper and women’s pads. By the way, the director of the picture and co-author of the script for a couple with Jean Hegland, was another woman – Patricia Rosema.
The plot of the picture amazes with its primitivism. Two sisters live with their father in a country house, somewhere in the woods. And here you are, the end of the world in the truest sense of the word - the electricity has run out. The reason for such a terrible cataclysm of the author is of little interest: “It is over because it is over.”
But there's a man in the house. The father of the family quickly takes control of the situation, which prevents the creation of the atmosphere of the movie apocalypse.
And here's the woman's happiness - the two sisters are now on their own! But the only thing they do for the rest of the movie is, sorry to be honest, they fuck each other. And from time to time, they run to fuck with guys in the woods under the stump, in the truest sense of the word. It seems that the house is large, and the girls are long over twenty. But the best place to fuck is the forest. As a result, having fucked their brains, the sisters finally lose their minds, burn their house and go to live under the stump, apparently seeing in it a brother by reason and a kindred soul. Everything.
The only thing that saves the film is the delightful Ellen Page in the title role, watching which is a pleasure, no matter how stupid she played. I'll give the movie two out of ten.