Into the Forest

I feel like the premise for this called for a truly visionary, unique tale. It was definitely compelling and mostly well-done, although its effect mostly comes from its acting. The screenplay needed some more work to more readily establish its main goals. Evan Rachel Wood and Ellen Page are strong in their roles and do more work to fill in the gaps in their characters' writing and development. The music is sometimes a little over-the-top, and the film tries too hard to move you at certain times (and instead of being effective comes across kind of awkwardly). Still, this is a mostly entertaining, mostly well told, even if it could have been truly great, film.

If you are a fan of the apocalyptic survival genre you will enjoy the movie until the last 5 minutes. The ending is poorly conceived, totally unrealistic and flat out stupid.

This film is not a survival thriller. It is a deep and profound symbological tale that can only be understood allergorically. Except that some of the ideas underlying the film are kind of obscure and confusing (on an allegorical level.) The best stories work by being universally understood on a subconscious level. So the film is really only partially successful as allegory.

If Teen Vogue made a remake of Temps Du Loup, this is what it would look like. It's not bad but for an connaisseur of dystopian & post apocalyptic fiction I tell you this will not be a classic. For a film about two sisters, one Lycra clad and fashionable, the other boyish living in a glass house in a forest in the midst of a disaster of world wide proportions the film is lacking the sense of emergency and impending doom you would expect in this scenario. When disaster hits one has major issues to solve (like bickering about music, ballet audits and mold) before even finding out what kind of disaster has occurred. After fighting off intruders, living on rations for months you know what will finally drive you out? Mold!

80% of the plot is Eva! Eva! Eva? Eva?? I don't even remember the name of the other girl, cause she is always calling her sister for at least 50% of the movie. Logic is nowhere to be found. If you have nothing else to watch, go for Fox News or the last YouTube Top #5 instead.