Maybe this is supposed to be metaphor. How no one is prepared for the wilderness that comes after a devastating loss. How the first months can feel- no survival skills, no means of communication, no way to get back. Maybe Demian Bechir is supposed to represent therapy and the process of learning how to live in this world and build something new.
OR maybe it's just people who have zero idea what they're talking about picking a random setting for some remarkably lazy and ridiculous storytelling.
Either way, this was dumb.
Honestly, I have a friend who did something similar a few years ago. Not from grief, but just moving to an off grid cabin. She has been studying this stuff for over a decade, homesteading, survival skills, camping, hiking, all that stuff. It was still a big struggle, and she didn't even do stupid things like emptying tuna water right off your front porch in bear country or leaving your firewood out in the snow (? Really? *That* level of stupid?) You have to keep your stove going all night in cabins like that if you don't want to freeze to death, and that's even if you don't have a large broken window (again, really? You don't even have to be a survivalist for that one, just pay your own heating bills). And I don't mean "pretty" freeze like robin wright. I mean the tip of your nose and a few of your fingers and maybe an ear ain't getting up off the floor of that cabin when you do. My point is, you don't have to make a character that stupid to show a time that's hard. That kind of living is hard and dangerous as it is.
And that's not even mentioning the unbelievability of the ridiculously fortuitous, capable, handsome sacrificial hunter who just happens to find her in the middle of her own property, or the fact that she suddenly sprouts some magic homesteading skills after she meets him. I won't say survival, because even with those, she spends a lot of time just staring off into nature instead of constantly pulling water, canning, or chopping firewood like most homesteaders do. She seems to rely a lot on Bechier to bring her stuff. You'd think one of the first things she'd do is ask him to take her to get a car and phone after seeing how dumb she was to give them away.
Anyway, this movie is ridiculous. You can't even call it a feel good movie because of Bechir's ending, which just seemed like another lazy trope from the "writers". It's supposed to bring back the poignancy I guess, but it just adds to the treacle and ridiculousness.
Not worth your time. Certainly not worth your dollar.
The scenery is really pretty though.
OR maybe it's just people who have zero idea what they're talking about picking a random setting for some remarkably lazy and ridiculous storytelling.
Either way, this was dumb.
Honestly, I have a friend who did something similar a few years ago. Not from grief, but just moving to an off grid cabin. She has been studying this stuff for over a decade, homesteading, survival skills, camping, hiking, all that stuff. It was still a big struggle, and she didn't even do stupid things like emptying tuna water right off your front porch in bear country or leaving your firewood out in the snow (? Really? *That* level of stupid?) You have to keep your stove going all night in cabins like that if you don't want to freeze to death, and that's even if you don't have a large broken window (again, really? You don't even have to be a survivalist for that one, just pay your own heating bills). And I don't mean "pretty" freeze like robin wright. I mean the tip of your nose and a few of your fingers and maybe an ear ain't getting up off the floor of that cabin when you do. My point is, you don't have to make a character that stupid to show a time that's hard. That kind of living is hard and dangerous as it is.
And that's not even mentioning the unbelievability of the ridiculously fortuitous, capable, handsome sacrificial hunter who just happens to find her in the middle of her own property, or the fact that she suddenly sprouts some magic homesteading skills after she meets him. I won't say survival, because even with those, she spends a lot of time just staring off into nature instead of constantly pulling water, canning, or chopping firewood like most homesteaders do. She seems to rely a lot on Bechier to bring her stuff. You'd think one of the first things she'd do is ask him to take her to get a car and phone after seeing how dumb she was to give them away.
Anyway, this movie is ridiculous. You can't even call it a feel good movie because of Bechir's ending, which just seemed like another lazy trope from the "writers". It's supposed to bring back the poignancy I guess, but it just adds to the treacle and ridiculousness.
Not worth your time. Certainly not worth your dollar.
The scenery is really pretty though.