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Hipster wannabe Hippies

posted 10 years ago by jrock158
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Well this movie sounded like it could be good from the synopsis but I was quite wrong. Spoilers to follow but honestly, this movie doesn't have much to give away. The movie starts out at the farm house and ends at the farm house. A group of hipsters, who try to be hippies are living in the country, maybe going "back to the land" so to say. We find out quickly that it is only a ploy so the yoga leader dude can bang the ladies trapped at his house while none of the other guys get any action (sounds like a bad deal). There is even some girl on girl action. A group of hipsters leave the house in a car at the beginning to go get supplies but never come back....genius on their part. This leaves about 4 guys and 4 ladies, plus one lady mysteriously shows up on foot halfway through the movie. So now, middle of winter, the rest are stranded there to survive with their canned food and no power. Yoga leader dude and recent lady of interest get greedy and eat a whole jar of canned food, first to experiment, and it ends up being bad so food poisoning is to follow. Not surprising since they all seemed like amateurs. Yoga leader dude gets real sick, lady interest ends up dying. They build her a wooden casket and set her out in the woods like nothing had ever happened. All the food is thrown out. Now they have hardly food. Things get bleak. I find myself hoping they all die to end this mess of a movie. Oh wait, but they have a gun, end up killing a deer and all is good. Ironic how they were all probably strict vegans and they ended up eating meat to survive. So all is good and back to normal with the killing of one deer which they seem to survive off the rest of winter? Totally unrealistic.

This movie lacked any depth or character development at all. You will hate all of the characters. You will question things they could of done, fore example, when the power went out, they could of called the power company because yoga leader dude had a cell phone. One or two of them could of walked to a main road to hitch a ride to get supplies or help, especially when that poor lady was dying. The movie did have some great cinematography and that is about it. I am thinking that is the only reason it made it into Tribeca Film Festival. My advise is don't waste your time.

[–] rlange-3 10 years ago

The movie conveyed a powerful message: Don't bother watching.

[–] essex9999 9 years ago

While the film had its problems, we are given to understand that some kind of apocalyptic event or series of events has taken place. Not only does the power go out and stay out permanently, but the radio is heard in the background early on giving various dire news reports, and eventually we hear the Emergency Alert System activated. After that, there's nothing on the radio at all.

We're never told exactly what happened, except that apparently things started with massive power outage. It would have helped if they had provided more explanation or at least made the radio reports more audible, but apparently they can't just walk out for help. (The fact that no one even tries - or even mentions the idea - is unrealistic, but I think that's meant to reinforce the claustrophobic and intensely inward-looking nature of the group.)