Ever After

Maybe it would make more sense if I were German. But I doubt it very much. Basically a mental, idiotic, entitled and useless young woman is making her way in a Zombie apocalypse. Has some very odd characters like a plant women and plant infested zombies to add to the mess. Skip it. Terrible.

Walk like a zombie, talk (well, maybe a grunt) like a zombie, look like a zombie. Yes, still another unexplained (probably because they can't) plague produces another apocalypse. Two small fenced-in cities survive w/different ways of dealing w/the infected. One looking for a cure; the other just bashing heads. Confusing, disjointed storyline so couldn't get into it. Weirdly, and also unexplained, was an environmental message of maybe after all the destruction humans have done to the planet we don't deserve to be here (hard to disagree w/that point), but most weird is that some humans seem to have become sorta partially a plant & partially a human?? Maybe there's hope for us??

Pout, brood, sulk, zombie, repeat. If you like watching a sad girl wander around the beautiful countryside and occasionally hang out with another sad girl then you will enjoy this movie. The zombies are fast, everything else is in slow motion.

The problem with going back to plant based nature as a solution to human based destruction, is that plant warfare is a thing. So this film suffers from a serious logical fallacy.

The zombie virus is clearly a plant based doomsday device, and plants kill each other all the time, it's not like plant life is any different from that of any other living organism. Plants, fight to death over Earth's limited resources, like any other form of life.

But I get the charm of the concept of an egalitarian mother nature, and the idea of a nurturing female energy. Unfortunately, reality doesn't car what the screenplay writers wish to be the case.

Either way, I love it when art has something to say about existence and human nature, wrong or not. At least "Ever After" tried to participate in an important discussion, so the film isn't a complete failure.

World premiere at the 43rd Toronto International Film Festival - TIFF18.

This is the second feature film by Swedish director Carolina Hellsgård, working in Germany. The post-apocalyptic zombie setting benefits from some impressive production design and the existentialism embedded adds some layers to the story.