I am surprised it got so many negative reviews, I personally enjoyed the photography, the scenery, and the acting. I also loved the dream sequences in the film, sometimes you get tricked into believing the character is actually awake. There are also some puppets which are cool and pretty creepy. I found the film in general, captivating.
First of all, it is not a movie with action, if you are hoping for something fast paced then I would recommend you to watch something else. The film is about a boy growing up in a world where he is forced to believe every single word his father says. He later discovers his father has not been honest and decides to question him and rebel against him. It is a growing up film in post apocalyptic circumstances.
The film starts with an overprotective alcoholic father and his 3 children who live in a cabin in the middle of the woods. The film starts with the four playing hide and seek inside the house. Happy to go for another round of the game, their father, Gustavo, dryly says it's time for bed. We later see the father opens up a door leading to the basement where the children; Argel and Luciana, including his eldest son Marcos, have to sleep. The eldest goes last, glaring at his father as he continues downstairs behind his younger siblings. The father locks the basement tight with a lock.
It is later revealed that there is a monster that lives in the darkness. The children see a wolf in several occasions and weird noises torment the woods and the cabin. The younger siblings are not allowed to get outside, while the eldest, accompanies his father to hunt in order for the family to survive. In the outside world, they use gas masks to explore the woods in search for food. Luciana spends her time collecting insects she finds, while Argel wonders what his big brother Marcos wanted to tell him before going out with their father to hunt. His father later returns without Marcos. When questioned about Marco´s disappearance, his father claims the monster has taken him because he left his side.
Young Luciana gets ill, while she lays with fever she tells her sibling that "the darkness is in his room" explaining no further while she doses off to sleep. Argel starts doubting his father, he questions Marco's disappearance and starts having weird dreams. He also suspects, after encountering two other survivors, that his father is hiding something from them, probably in one of the cabin´s room where his father has forbade them to enter. The two newcomers seem to be the only ones around and claim to have seen Marcos and Argel slowly rebels against his father.
First of all, it is not a movie with action, if you are hoping for something fast paced then I would recommend you to watch something else. The film is about a boy growing up in a world where he is forced to believe every single word his father says. He later discovers his father has not been honest and decides to question him and rebel against him. It is a growing up film in post apocalyptic circumstances.
The film starts with an overprotective alcoholic father and his 3 children who live in a cabin in the middle of the woods. The film starts with the four playing hide and seek inside the house. Happy to go for another round of the game, their father, Gustavo, dryly says it's time for bed. We later see the father opens up a door leading to the basement where the children; Argel and Luciana, including his eldest son Marcos, have to sleep. The eldest goes last, glaring at his father as he continues downstairs behind his younger siblings. The father locks the basement tight with a lock.
It is later revealed that there is a monster that lives in the darkness. The children see a wolf in several occasions and weird noises torment the woods and the cabin. The younger siblings are not allowed to get outside, while the eldest, accompanies his father to hunt in order for the family to survive. In the outside world, they use gas masks to explore the woods in search for food. Luciana spends her time collecting insects she finds, while Argel wonders what his big brother Marcos wanted to tell him before going out with their father to hunt. His father later returns without Marcos. When questioned about Marco´s disappearance, his father claims the monster has taken him because he left his side.
Young Luciana gets ill, while she lays with fever she tells her sibling that "the darkness is in his room" explaining no further while she doses off to sleep. Argel starts doubting his father, he questions Marco's disappearance and starts having weird dreams. He also suspects, after encountering two other survivors, that his father is hiding something from them, probably in one of the cabin´s room where his father has forbade them to enter. The two newcomers seem to be the only ones around and claim to have seen Marcos and Argel slowly rebels against his father.