This film really,
really tries to be more important, more of an 'event' than it is. The idea is
good, a sorta future western where the scarcity of water has turned much of the
world into a near-lawless desert where people try and farm the small remaining
patches of fertile land and protect them from outlaws or profiteering banks and
whatnot.
Much of the
technology from before the fall remains, cars, robot mules, televison and
suchlike, but they're all dusty and fading reminders of when the world was a
greener place, with little or no contemporary production occurring. A bit like
visiting Hastings.
That sense of dry,
rusty, industrial/civil decline is done well, not overstated, believable.
However, the plot is obvious, the acting very, very 'actorly' and the sense of
smug psuedo-profundity is a fucking arseache. The end of the film is almost
weeping at its own brilliance and trying to insist that we have just witnessed
something very important.
Rather than a average
film about very dry people living somewhere that looks like the Jawa planet in
Star Wars.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2693664/
5/10
Perkin.
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