I know that this film had a very low rating on Prime Video. But that is not a true indicator of the quality of it because:
1. Most Prime viewers generally don't like 'foreign' films. (Although it's not truly foreign in every way, it's Canadian.)
2. Most of the American viewers also don't have the patience for this type of austere loneliness in a storyline, I think it scares them, you know, being that they're American and all.
3. It looks like it might be a horror film at first (which probably accounts for over fifty percent of Prime viewership), but it isn't, not in a scary monster type of way, anyway, just in the sheer "aloneness" and 24 hours a day darkness it portrays, which most Americans just can't stomach; and 4. The storyline is ambiguous. There's a lot of cold, darkness, snow, and "aloneness". Most Americans don't have, or want, to spend the time it takes to "get it", although some, like me, will get it immediately.
So if you are not in any of the viewer groups listed above, try it. You have probably an eighty percent chance of liking this film, ten percent of hating it, and ten percent of rating it at nine or ten stars.
3. It looks like it might be a horror film at first (which probably accounts for over fifty percent of Prime viewership), but it isn't, not in a scary monster type of way, anyway, just in the sheer "aloneness" and 24 hours a day darkness it portrays, which most Americans just can't stomach; and 4. The storyline is ambiguous. There's a lot of cold, darkness, snow, and "aloneness". Most Americans don't have, or want, to spend the time it takes to "get it", although some, like me, will get it immediately.
So if you are not in any of the viewer groups listed above, try it. You have probably an eighty percent chance of liking this film, ten percent of hating it, and ten percent of rating it at nine or ten stars.
