Lotawana

Lotawana is a beautiful film driven by a visual story telling with minimal, but purposeful dialogue and an amazing musical score that pushes the story further. This film makes you feel like you are along for the ride with the main characters just trying to figure out how to live a simple and meaningful life that focuses on experiences while having to navigate themes like conformity, poverty, consumerism, anxiety, and depression. Moments throughout the film show the natural allure of Missouri forest, lakes, clifs, and wild life through every season of the year.

Very pointless film with no plot to speak of. It's like a series of events strung together with no connection. Beautiful visuals, but the entire thing has no discernible message, purpose, and felt like a waste of time.

The cinematography was nice but b-roll gets old after so much. It's hard to even judge this as a real movie because the plot and pacing were so poor. Felt more like a high school project.

A sweet beautiful film about a couple who once they meet try to live out their idealic life within nature while the material world tries to force itself into their world. Not much really goes as we see how they survive from living on a boat that at sea town but the film takes advantage of the beautiful nature and water imagery. The only thing I didn't enjoy was the ending but maybe it was the filmmaker's attempt to make a big change for the characters but overall enjoyed the film and I felt I might have loved it if I was still in my early 20s.

The two main characters - I hesitate to call them protagonists - are not entirely unlikable - until the end - but neither are they in any way remarkable, except perhaps in their complete lack of foresight. By the end of the film, however, they have evolved to be fully unlikable and quite the antagonists. The film wraps with an inexplicable extended sequence that was apparently intended to be allegorical but was instead just nonsensical. I've tried my best to give you a sense of the film without resorting to spoilers, but really the film was already spoiled by the screenplay and concept.