You know you're in trouble when the opening is on a radio station DJ smoking what must be a 20 year old cigarette. And it goes downhill from there. The pregnant girl has 20 year old batteries in her portable radio. They wear 20 year old makeup (we're not meant to notice this). And so on.
If you can get past a director who didn't give two seconds of thought to his setting you're rewarded with a script that starts and ends no where. The pregnancy is presented to us as the first one in 20 years. How this handful of people could possibly know this is left as an exercise to the viewer. Everything is left as an exercise to the viewer: what happened 20 years ago, what has happened in the intervening 20 years, why these people were chosen to be the ones we're supposed to be interested in, why the girl is leaving, what the girl hopes to find at her destination, and how she's meant to raise a child in a world where the water is toxic.
Because this technically isn't a movie - it's a collection of independent scenes in the same setting - it's exhausting. The scenes are disjointed and many of them and unnecessary and pointless. We're drowned in a flood of dime store philosophy that's meant to be "deep", but is insipid and juvenile. Aside from the girl wandering around little else happens of any import. It's also slow and boring and uninteresting.
Three stars for the actors getting a credit on their CV. No stars for the story, for the director who didn't care about the details, and for a script that should never have been green lit. Three stars.
If you can get past a director who didn't give two seconds of thought to his setting you're rewarded with a script that starts and ends no where. The pregnancy is presented to us as the first one in 20 years. How this handful of people could possibly know this is left as an exercise to the viewer. Everything is left as an exercise to the viewer: what happened 20 years ago, what has happened in the intervening 20 years, why these people were chosen to be the ones we're supposed to be interested in, why the girl is leaving, what the girl hopes to find at her destination, and how she's meant to raise a child in a world where the water is toxic.
Because this technically isn't a movie - it's a collection of independent scenes in the same setting - it's exhausting. The scenes are disjointed and many of them and unnecessary and pointless. We're drowned in a flood of dime store philosophy that's meant to be "deep", but is insipid and juvenile. Aside from the girl wandering around little else happens of any import. It's also slow and boring and uninteresting.
Three stars for the actors getting a credit on their CV. No stars for the story, for the director who didn't care about the details, and for a script that should never have been green lit. Three stars.