gacsogergely

This movie has plot, well-set atmosphere and of course the non-linear editing saved it from being a bore.

Those who thought this is boring and random must be from the TikTok-generation, who wouldn't be able to sit through 2001 Space Odyssey, not to mention standing up from it thinking this was exciting.

Not that this one is on that level. Oh no. Solid cinema - yes. Not counting the ending still 8/10, despite only having 1 + 0.5 + 0.5 character. Sure, the story is self-discovery through wondeing in nature alone trying to find the issing relative. Sure, the Lord of the Flies group might seem unsatisfyingly underexplained. Doesn't mean it is bad though.

The ending though is where i have complaints. You know, all the modern horrors/movies tend to state in the end all this happened was just allegory of grief, acceptance, or whatever. I find this trend boring and obvious, not to mention a letdown. There was potential for being The Real Thing here, when showing the illustration where the person offers (his) own head as sacrifise. The paper-mache masks gave me hope that is what's gonna happen. But modern "elevated horror" tropes kicked in unfortunately, making it less likely I'll discuss this flick with others.

This review evaoluate the story and the narration, because as movie it isn't giving much aside some wage nature-documentary stlye, or some interactive novel computer game eg. Werewolf the Apocalypse: Heart of the Forest.

The narrative follows a child who feels neglected by her family and isolated from humankind. One day some woodland spirit transforms her to various animals, giving the child wildly different perspectives in themselves, and to the expectation how those creatures live, think and feel.

These experinces teaches her to recognise equal value in all living things, and sheds light that her parents do care after all, and being human has its place after all.

Sure, these people are old. Probably friends in real life. Doing a vanity-project of the director. On the other hand, they are life-long trained martial arists, who know they are not doing big in Hollywood, but neither just film their vacation-trip to cover the expenses.

And if you are into the whacky side of martial arts movies, you have everything: sitting under waterfall, training montage, cutting down trees with your knuckles - all that goodness. We even have space-dragons!

So if you want 2 hours of Obviously Bad Guy vs Obviously Good Guy preparing against each other, constant martial arts fighting, plus some cheesey scenes inbetween, ina film where you finaly can see something instead of the hollywood-darkness, this movie is for you.

And while it is definitely "so bad it's good", it's actualy somewhat competent, unlike a Seagal-flick, and definitely not boring like Champagne and Bullets.

I'm happy this weird thing exists,