Into the Forest

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This movie, being under some categories as thriller/drama and even Sci-Fi, don't quite fit nor do it justice. Evan Rachel Wood and Ellen Page are sisters living in a post-apocalyptic word, with their father. Somewhere in the "Pacific Northwesr" however no location is given. What I love most about this move, and what I think that true movie watcher will appreciate is how real, connected, and undeniably candid the two sisters relationship is throughout the entire movie. This alone, made this this a definitely 9 for me. One 'ore star was not given for reasons I will not share in this review. The movie has a realm of mystery and fear of the unknown, and of the know. This director does a marvelous job at keeping focus on what's going on in that particular moment, and keeps you there. Not wondering what will happen or what did happen. Give this a try!

Not going to write a very in depth review here but I've seen some incredibly bad reviews on this site with even worse motivations to give this movie a bad score. Some even included *spoiler* pro-rape sentiment and a total lack of empathy and insight towards why the characters would behave and react in certain ways. /Spoiler So to the people who are more sensitive to how vulnerable we all are/can be and how in a way we've become very dependent on things we have taken for granted, I feel that this movie can be a beautiful yet sometimes heartbreaking experience. The movie was beautifully shot, some scenes are genuinely scary, the leads give incredible performances and the movie really captures quite well how traumatic events can partially shape a person but that there's always someone's character, spirit itself that will define one's choices as well. Honestly, there are some people who are saying that this is the worst movie they have ever seen. I can tell you, Saving Christmas is not in the same league as Into the Forest! I recommend this movie for sure. 8/10

This movie has some really convincing performances. Ellen Page is great, the depth of her emotions are intense and believable. Evan Rachel Wood is also really good, she does her sensitive character a lot of justice and portrays a vividly brutal scene with real honesty. This movie is unsettling because it is all too possible. What happens when we are suddenly left without power is shocking - we are plunged into a lawless past, with no protection. This movie really conveys that well, and at the same time explores the theme of what it means to be a family. I was moved to tears several times. The forest setting is lush and beautiful. The direction was good - the pace was tense and believable, the only slow part I didn't care for were some of the love scenes in the beginning, and the dance scenes were pretty dispensable, but all in all I really liked it!

Listed as a drama and a sci-fi here but there are not very much sci-fi about it except for it taking place a couple years maybe into the future, but yeah no time traveling, aliens or robots or any of the sort so don't go into it expecting anything of that. It is a rather down to earth human drama with some scenes of suspense but mostly a drama about human endurance in hard times. Reading through some of the negative comments on the message-board I get the impression that people thought that this would be some sort of lesbian erotic drama (maybe because the only trivia currently listed is that Ellen Page does her first * scene in it) but that is not the case, and the scene is not very explicit either. And some complain about animal cruelty, which is not even shown on screen, there is a quick scene where a animal gets visibly butchered but it's ridiculous to call it animal cruelty as the animal most likely suffered more humane treatment than the meat you buy in store and it was of course already dead. So those things are something I think are partly the reasons why there are quite a few negative reviews about it. Not saying that the movie is flawless but I think it was a well spent 95 minutes and one I will watch again sometime most likely.

Seriously, in the ending I was like WTF, DUDE!? After delivering the baby, walking to the house in the rain, she decides to burn it down? I thought she was displaying a case of postpartum psychosis and wondering what is her sister gonna do about that... And what does she do? She agrees that the best option, with her sister's baby just having been born, is to burn the house and go live inside a tree bark while it's raining and doesn't look like it's gonna stop? WTF!? The movie was OK, performances OK, premise OK. What happens to our civilization if (when) we lose power and communications? How do we survive, having lost all our survival skills (or never even being learnt)? The film deals with issues such as human nature, people robbing and raping each other in case of a catastrophe, instead of helping out and joining forces. I feel like the most sensitive topics, like how do you preserve food and how do you grow food and how do you prepare food and how do you survive winters when there's no food around and... basically anything that's about survival has been left out. How do they survive 15 months in the forest? There only so much berries in the forests and they're not even there for the entire year... Though, they did show how they can (cook and sterilize) berries, which is respectable. All in all, the entire film was overshadowed by the ending. They didn't cover much of survival - OK, I can get over it, films don't have to be about what I expect them to be about - but the ending is a complete and absolute sack of... well you know what. So much from me.

Couple girls brave out post-Apocalyptic times without any untended hair growth. And bring forth a baby. And burn down their only shelter. One sister decides to part ways with the other to go seek out more fertile opportunities, while leaving the other one to her fate in the forest, but then rushes back. Rape, malnutrition, mold and dearth of pain-killers are no match for their indomitable spirits. This review has more lines than the "script" managed to draft for this movie. Also, didn't get what the animal killing scene was all about. Grotesque and senseless. Recommended to those who might find stupidity bemusing.

After "It Comes At Night" had absolutely nothing come at night, i'm getting sick of these moody post-apocalyptic dramas with titles that are completely wrong or misleading as to the actual content of the movie. the movie at the start is about a single father with two young adult daughters, Nell and Eva, living in a house out in the woods on the west coast. Then there's a catastrophic power outage that ends up being far worse than a random outage. While the concept is broad enough not to be based on anything already written, it reminded me very strongly of the novel by William Forstchen "One Second After", about a father and his two young girls living in a small town in the Carolinas when a massive EMP event hits and they have to go months without power. The novel, which supposedly Newt Gingritch said inspired him to talk about the threat of EMP attacks on the US power grid, was incredibly written and dealt with a lot of the dangerous issues to be dealt with without any sort of electricity, including one of his daughters being diabetic and them having to constantly scour and barter for insulin and ice, while maintaining some manner of stability in the community. This movie does absolutely none of that. The father dies due to an inexplicable accident in which he is apparently wasting gasoline using a chainsaw to cut down a tree for firewood, only to have it come apart and saw his leg and he bleeds out. This leaves the two daughters to survive for many months in their house hidden away in the woods without power. There's never any real danger. They have a seemingly endless supply of clean water, enough not just to drink but to bathe and shave with regularity, and an even more endless supply of rice and beans that not only lasts them many many months, but lasts them throughout having Nell's boyfriend over for several days as well. They somehow continue to maintain the house for over a year, doing nothing but chopping firewood and going on with Nell studying and Eva practicing dancing. The only threat from people in town is when a random shopkeep they'd met earlier shows up to rape Eva and leave. At the end, suddenly the house is seeing huge pieces collapse due to black mold, and with Eva having a baby, she decides not only can she not live in the moldy house anymore but she wants to use the last of their gasoline to set it on fire and leave. I don't know how to handle a mold outbreak in a house, but in a post-apocalyptic setting where there's been no electricity in virtually the entire country for over a year, and no communication with the outside world beyond rumor, I think ditching and burning down a huge house that has gone 15 months without being raided or even discovered by potential bandits and looters is suicide. Another reviewer put it simply and truly; they would die very quickly in the real world. Even if we could believe that they had a perfect house with a huge supply of food and water that lasted them 15 months, they'd end up dead within days after scuttling it and going out on their own without any food or supplies or shelter and a newborn baby.

To start this film has decent color, camera-work, and editing, even the acting is okay regardless of the fact the choices the girls make are just utterly unrealistic, and mindblowingly dumb. I was confused if it was the acting that was terrible but decided it was the story. Do teenage girls actually act like this? It kind of worries me that a simple power outage leads them to such extreme lack of intelligence. I felt as if i was watching preschoolers in teenage bodies. I eventually forced myself to stop watching this film because i was becoming angry at the foolishness i was seeing. So the power goes out and somehow its the end of the world. Spoilers start here. So all is well at first, a happy single dad raising his two daughters in a modest house in the woods an hour drive or so to a city or town. They obviously go to town at least every other day, on the day the powers out the car battery dies, the next day their intelligent father rigs up a chainsaw to charge the battery, I really hope the car wasn't a stick shift cause they could have just push started it, lets say it wasn't. So at this point we find out that Evan Rachel Wood as Eva, is into ballet, and her sister is Ellen Page as Nell except they look nothing alike but okay ill believe you its a movie. Meanwhile they go to the grocery store and run into a family friend? Who helps them out with some free candles, they get home and their dad has an accident while chopping wood with his chainsaw? This is the point where all intelligence is thrown out the window. Somehow the girls hear the accident happen and run out to find their dad laying on the ground with a leg wound, somehow the dad knows hes going to die but has them apply pressure to the wound, yet doesn't tell them to get help instead just says he loves them like hes on his death bed. The girls sorts of just stand in shock ,and honestly its daylight they have a working car why didn't they try to load him into it and drive him to a hospital? Do cell phones not exist? They didn't do anything to help him? Instead the just sleep at his now corpse then wake up and dig a hole and bury him. This had me so angry i was literally yelling WTF at this point, wondering if this was normal for them and if they somehow killed their mom and buried her in the back yard as well. The girls look teenage and the next day they move on like nothing happened, Eva goes back to practicing ballet while Nell somehow cooks 5 star meals with no electricity. They don't even try to tell anyone, I stopped watching shortly after disgusted by the utter stupidity i had just seen. Is this behavior normal? I grew up in Canada and had friends that lived in cabins in the forest an hour or 2 from town, they still had working phones, generators for backup, satellite TV, and live normal lives. Didn't these girls have family friends i was under the impression they knew the grocery store guy, maybe even had boyfriends. I am puzzled by anyone who was like okay with the decision-making of the girls ._. All i can say is this feels like it was written by a child, how did the director not have vision to stop production and say this has no logic instead its like wait a minute the viewers are unintelligent they just will watch Ellen Page and not even pay attention to this whole mental retardation. I'm insulted, never before have i felt like the world truly has become idiocracy. Im done!