While the title and synopsis suggest a survival drama, this movie in fact gives you very little detail on the actual measures taken to 'survive' in a situation of prolonged power outage. Two sisters, Nell and Eva, are left orphaned after their dad succumbs to the injuries he received from a chainsaw accident, leaving them helpless at their house with no electricity.

This is a story that tries to highlight the bond between the two sisters played by Ellen Page and Evan Rachel Wood who deliver terrific and above-average performances respectively. As such, the film packs an emotional punch but fails terribly as a survival thriller. For instance, one wonders how they look as gleeful and healthy as they are, even after a year of no-power (the reason for which isn't explained clearly either). How were they able to procure clean water? Surely, they must have decided on some constraints in the quantity of food they eat. But this doesn't seem to take any toll on their bodies (not even a minor blemish); Page's cheeks look round and rosy as ever.

They must have had to hunt for food on more instances than what's shown in the film. They should have had to fend off more intruders than just the one guy who ends up raping the (supposedly) older sister. There are a plethora of possibilities that could have taken place in the lives of the two sisters. But alas, the director doesn't seem interested in expounding any of it.

Logical reasoning does take a backseat too often, in between the highly emotional moments. Like Eva almost springing into a comfortable upright position just after she has gone through a painful delivery. Like Eva deciding to go ahead with childbearing after being raped. Like the posh house that starts falling apart in like a year and half of not-so- great maintenance (so much for modern architecture!). Like using their last available bit of fuel to burn their house down during heavy downpour and deciding to take shelter in a tree stump instead (with an infant, mind you!) while they could have at least used the gasoline to warm themselves later on.

Nevertheless, the movie does score high on performances and this is probably why one wouldn't want to write off the film altogether. I just wish the movie probed more into the actualities of survival than staging emotional scenes.

Verdict: Writing department needed to do a lot better!

At first I thought it was going to be little interesting to see how they all survive, but as the movie goes on you find out the characters are the kind that would not survive any kind of apocalypse in the long term. If that's the point of this movie, then they nailed it. The movie might seem like it has a good ending, but in reality they wouldn't last a week with an infant without a decent shelter.

Deciding to burn the house down because of 'black mold' and then living in a tree stump while it's beating down rain (and winter is coming soon) is one of the stupidest things I've ever seen. They could have fixed the roof eventually, or at least weatherproofed it. Or they could have just found another house, since they were all abandoned. Instead they decide to live outside with an infant. Just plain stupidity.

Without getting into all of the other hot topics that this film engenders, as an Alaskan I can say that from a purely survival aspect they wouldn't make it a winter. And in fact if this was supposed to be anywhere in Canada where was winter? It always seemed green. There are few berries in winter. Unless they lived in a fairly substantial house they would freeze to death. And there is very little food apart from hunting in the winter. And they certainly did not learn enough to survive simply from books. They would run out of ammo soon. They showed no skill at creating tools or salvaging them. And certainly none at basic house repair. In fact I would say they were just about the unhandiest women I've seen in the woods. Essentially this was just an emotionally acted fantasy without much basis in the real world. Kind of a shame. I had hoped for more.

There are spoilers here, beware!

End of the world. What do you do. These girls, practice modern dance. Study for final exams. Argue a lot. Eat some beans. And in the film's final scene, burn down their house and relocate to a tree stump...in the rain...with a newborn, and a mission. What that mission might be isn't expressed, but a good guess is, it begins by building a house.

{facepalm}

Unfortunately, these buffoons use their last remaining gasoline to set fire to all their food, tools, and building materials. Metaphor for young women birthing a new world? No! Cartoon level stupidity overwrought by wholly unnecessary mellow drama that isn't only boring, it's unbelievable.

In an isolated house in the woods, a widower (Callum Keith Rennie) lives with his daughters Nellie "Nell" (Ellen Page) and Eva (Evan Rachel Wood). When there is a power outage in the area, they have problems to get fuel and supplies in the nearby town. Soon there is a general power outage and the family stays isolated without means of transportation. Out of the blue, the man has an accident with a chainsaw and dies. Now the two girls have to learn how to survive in the wilderness.

"Into the Forest" is one of the most boring and stupid films recently released. The performances are good but the situations are impressively absurd. There is no explanation for the power outage. The girls have just five liters of fuel, and one of them wants a share to use in the generator to listen to music and dance. The same girl is raped and prefers to bring a baby to a world without any perspective. Leaving the house in the rain to deliver the baby inside a tree is ridiculous. But burning their house to the ground because of the smell to stay in the rain with a baby, food, books and pictures and improvise a camping tent in a tree is absolutely nonsense. My vote is three.

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After "It Comes At Night" had absolutely nothing come at night, i'm getting sick of these moody post-apocalyptic dramas with titles that are completely wrong or misleading as to the actual content of the movie.

the movie at the start is about a single father with two young adult daughters, Nell and Eva, living in a house out in the woods on the west coast. Then there's a catastrophic power outage that ends up being far worse than a random outage.

While the concept is broad enough not to be based on anything already written, it reminded me very strongly of the novel by William Forstchen "One Second After", about a father and his two young girls living in a small town in the Carolinas when a massive EMP event hits and they have to go months without power.

The novel, which supposedly Newt Gingritch said inspired him to talk about the threat of EMP attacks on the US power grid, was incredibly written and dealt with a lot of the dangerous issues to be dealt with without any sort of electricity, including one of his daughters being diabetic and them having to constantly scour and barter for insulin and ice, while maintaining some manner of stability in the community.

This movie does absolutely none of that. The father dies due to an inexplicable accident in which he is apparently wasting gasoline using a chainsaw to cut down a tree for firewood, only to have it come apart and saw his leg and he bleeds out. This leaves the two daughters to survive for many months in their house hidden away in the woods without power.

There's never any real danger. They have a seemingly endless supply of clean water, enough not just to drink but to bathe and shave with regularity, and an even more endless supply of rice and beans that not only lasts them many many months, but lasts them throughout having Nell's boyfriend over for several days as well.

They somehow continue to maintain the house for over a year, doing nothing but chopping firewood and going on with Nell studying and Eva practicing dancing. The only threat from people in town is when a random shopkeep they'd met earlier shows up to rape Eva and leave.

At the end, suddenly the house is seeing huge pieces collapse due to black mold, and with Eva having a baby, she decides not only can she not live in the moldy house anymore but she wants to use the last of their gasoline to set it on fire and leave.

I don't know how to handle a mold outbreak in a house, but in a post-apocalyptic setting where there's been no electricity in virtually the entire country for over a year, and no communication with the outside world beyond rumor, I think ditching and burning down a huge house that has gone 15 months without being raided or even discovered by potential bandits and looters is suicide.

Another reviewer put it simply and truly; they would die very quickly in the real world. Even if we could believe that they had a perfect house with a huge supply of food and water that lasted them 15 months, they'd end up dead within days after scuttling it and going out on their own without any food or supplies or shelter and a newborn baby.

Seriously, in the ending I was like WTF, DUDE!? After delivering the baby, walking to the house in the rain, she decides to burn it down? I thought she was displaying a case of postpartum psychosis and wondering what is her sister gonna do about that... And what does she do? She agrees that the best option, with her sister's baby just having been born, is to burn the house and go live inside a tree bark while it's raining and doesn't look like it's gonna stop? WTF!?

The movie was OK, performances OK, premise OK. What happens to our civilization if (when) we lose power and communications? How do we survive, having lost all our survival skills (or never even being learnt)? The film deals with issues such as human nature, people robbing and raping each other in case of a catastrophe, instead of helping out and joining forces.

I feel like the most sensitive topics, like how do you preserve food and how do you grow food and how do you prepare food and how do you survive winters when there's no food around and... basically anything that's about survival has been left out. How do they survive 15 months in the forest? There only so much berries in the forests and they're not even there for the entire year... Though, they did show how they can (cook and sterilize) berries, which is respectable.

All in all, the entire film was overshadowed by the ending. They didn't cover much of survival - OK, I can get over it, films don't have to be about what I expect them to be about - but the ending is a complete and absolute sack of... well you know what.

So much from me.

Utter waste of time - this movie is one ridiculous scene after another, with pointless decisions which make no difference to the lives of the characters apart from make their situation worse, to the point that they start in a house and end up living in a tree stump. Never seen such an awful movie.

Even after months of no power, they have random objects like an orange on their kitchen table - no idea how that would have lasted months without going rotten. Only at the last possible moment do they decide to go hunting.

When it comes to the birth of a child (after a random and pointless rape from a secondary and overly creepy acting store attendant), they decide to leave the house, hike miles while actually in labour and then give birth in a tree stump... who writes scripts like this!

Another in a seemingly endless string of movies about going into the woods sees a small family unit of dad and two older daughters surviving after a mysterious power outage hits the country.

The movie is set in the near future, as we see from somewhat more sophisticated computer interfaces in the home. Strangely, this is where the technology ends, as our trio is left woefully unprepared for when the disaster strikes. They are living at a beautiful forest home, yet have no gas for the jenny and the solar panels do not work.... uh yeah.....

The strange disruption of the radio signals is also very unexplained.

So with the cause, ramifications, extent, etc of this catastrophe left blank and with that, a lot of suspicion on just how much the director thought this through when there are plenty of real world disasters available (solar flare? magnetic pole flip? Gamma ray burst?) we are left with 'Oh... OK... just a PLOT DEVICE...' to move on with. Which means, the story and the acting and the plot better be freaking GOOD....

Instead, we see the small family unit go through classic denial stage, then depression, then motivation stages. There are only two major plot crisis events in the movie, and at times we are left with wondering the ultimate purpose... as the movie starts to seem like a survival instructional video, then slides into a 'sisters 4eva!' girl power movie.

Another very strange point... their gorgeous forest bungalow home begins to self destruct for some reason after only 6 months... and is unlivable after 1 1/2 years.... not saying much for modern construction! No explanation for this very weird self destructing house (and those reading who are lazy on cleaning gutters, please rest easy - it takes YEARS of not cleaning them before the roof starts caving in...)

I didn't score lower, because, despite the many flaws, the actors themselves are top notch and bring their A game, and the beautiful setting is magic to get absorbed in, you can almost smell the pine.

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!

I watched this movie because I saw that someone had compared it favorably to The Survivalist. Um, no.

Something about the characters just wasn't sympathetic, even though the film tried hard to make you feel sorry for the sisters.

I didn't understand why the one sister wanting to dance relied on electricity. Last time I checked, you don't have to have electricity to dance. People who love dancing can dance without music, and can dance in the dark. Heck, she could have danced outdoors if she really wanted to.

The movie really didn't show the sisters working all that hard, so it was hard to figure out how they managed to grow enough food to eat for months at a time. Then, suddenly the one sister has to go kill a pig in order to provide some B12 for the pregnant sister, claiming it's only found in animal products? No, it's found in soil. Where do you think animals get it from? They don't manufacture it themselves. And, if they were eating so much food they grew themselves, they should have been getting plenty of B12. The scene with the gutting of the pig was completely unnecessary. We're supposed to feel sorry for the girl, because it's gross, but we don't. Also, how did she carry that huge boar if she had hurt her back?

The rape scene was also pointless. It should have been cut to a tenth of its length. Nobody wants to see some chick's face in the dirt howling for an eternity. We get it -- she's been raped.

All in all, the sisters just make a bunch of poor decisions. I won't even go into the ridiculousness of burning down your only shelter to go give birth in a tree stump. They learn nothing throughout their ordeal, and the movie is just plain boring.

I'm angry, what a waste of time (for which I paid $7!) This movie is absurd and totally boring. I just wonder where's the thrill in this triller or the sci-fi in this sci-fi. Please save your time and money and look for another movie. You don't want to see a father that dies premature because of a stupid accident and then see his 2 daughters trying to survive an apocalypse which you don't see a scene about. The whole movie happens in a beautiful house situated in a gorgeous, safe forest. 8 months into the forest and they were growing stronger with no food...what? How? Then a very short rape and a baby is on the way. That's when they finally decide to kill a wild pig. And then they burn the house down because it had mold. And that's it, end of story. Pfff...

(I intentionally tried my best to avoid spoilers, but please let me know if I didn't) I would have lost a bet if someone told me Ellen Page and Evan Rachel Wood were in a flick that sucked, but here you go. Good performances for both, some great emotion, but the whole of the writing suffers from plausibility problems, almost like a freshman film student didn't have a mentor review her work before final submission. It affects really basic things that are glaring. Set aside the narrative on the human condition, etc. for a moment. That can be massaged by the writer to match her message as she sees fit (some of the messages are not all that great, but I'm a guy), but what is obviously lacking in the story is the amount of technical consult work that must be done to ensure any viewer that has a slight idea of how things work doesn't turn away from the film before the conclusion. Perhaps I'm not part of the target audience? Unclear. Is it ready for the 2am slot of the lifetime network? Sure, why not? Every other medium will probably leave the viewer wondering if this same story could have been told with a lot more attention to detail. I mostly can't stand remakes, but I would welcome another crack at this.

Couple girls brave out post-Apocalyptic times without any untended hair growth. And bring forth a baby. And burn down their only shelter. One sister decides to part ways with the other to go seek out more fertile opportunities, while leaving the other one to her fate in the forest, but then rushes back. Rape, malnutrition, mold and dearth of pain-killers are no match for their indomitable spirits.

This review has more lines than the "script" managed to draft for this movie. Also, didn't get what the animal killing scene was all about. Grotesque and senseless. Recommended to those who might find stupidity bemusing.

I had the privilege of seeing this at a film festival in Chicago, where the director--Patricia Rozema--gave a Q&A session after the credits rolled. Before walking in, all I knew was that it starred Ellen Page and Evan Rachel Wood--actresses whom I thought were talented as is-- and that it was a "post-apocalyptic" film.

However, rather than zombies or nuclear fallout wiping out humankind, what I saw was an emotionally powerful story of how two sisters enter a new world while discarding an old one; through this process, I saw some of the most believable character arcs thanks to Page and Wood's incredible performances.

The set-up is deceptively simple: a house in an isolated forest. Rozema used this setting to evoke moods of both tension, beauty, and fear. The scenes were beautifully shot and accompanied by an equally beautiful score by Max Richter. I found the sisters' interaction with the house and surrounding forest to be incredibly engaging throughout.

There are no cataclysmic doomsday scenes here; no cracks in the earth swallowing up humanity. If you want to see a film like that, there are plenty to choose from. But if you want to instead see a film that makes you feel raw emotions and reflect as you watch the sisters' transformation in a time of adversity, then I can't recommend this film enough.

Horrible! It's like a high school student wrote it and the decisions these girls make are completely absurd. They have shelter, they decide to waste the remaining gasoline to burn it down because there might be mold in the house. You think there isn't mold in the rain forest you are sleeping, or in the tree stump where she has the baby. It's freezing pouring rain, and that is supposed to be better for the baby than shelter from the rain. Morons! They decide they rather sleep outside in the grass. Even aboriginals slept in tents and igloos to shelter them from the weather, not the grass.

The person who wrote this had no logic. Even hunting and gathering societies slept inside tents. They burned down the only shelter they had.

In addition, whoever wrote this, does not know that babies don't just come out of the mother CORDLESS. After she gave birth, how did the sister cut the umbilical cord? The person who wrote this does not know basic biology!

Also, whoever wrote this, does not know basic physics. There isn't one way to produce electricity. You can produce electricity from water, heat, solar and wind, even a potato can produce electricity!

Before the advent of power lines, which could transport power much more quickly and across a larger distance, we used power canals. 'A Power Canal refers to a canal used for hydraulic power generation, rather than for transport of watercraft. The power canal was a major factor in the Industrial revolution in New England in the 19th century. Most early power canals were mill races used mechanically to transfer power directly from falling water to machinery in mill buildings. Later, the hydraulic power generated electricity locally for the same mill factories. Later, the hydraulic power generated electricity locally for the same mill factories. These power canals were often filled in as electricity (transported by power lines) replaced the need for local water power, and road transport needs or city expansion needs reclaimed the land. Some hydraulic power canals were transformed into local electric generators, but most were closed. Remains of power canals can be seen in old mill towns and are often protected as historical structures today'

Another reviewer made this movie sound like an animal slasher movie, which it is NOT. There is one hog that gets killed in the entire movie, but the death is quick and much less painful than in factory farms. She shoots it twice to make sure it is a fast death, so its not cruel. In a real slaughter house, they butcher the hog with an axe. I don't believe in animal cruelty, but this was not a cruel death. I have heard of much worse deaths in today's American slaughter houses (e.g., hogs being tortured and electrocuted right up until their slaughtered; they don't waste bullets on them like they did in the movie). I like bacon, ham and sausage, so I had no issue with it. Yes, you see the guts and insides of the pig, but you do that in grade 12 biology as well. The pig is dead, it is not suffering. You also do that at a pig roast too where 100+ people come out to eat pieces of the pig roasting on the fire. That part of the movie made me hungry! (It's not a dog, deer or rabbit.) Hogs are part of our food chain. In my opinion, it is the best tasting meat out there!

This movie tells us the story of building a new life without ordinary acquisitions of the modern world as well as the basic human needs such as safety, sheltering and hunger. The post-electricity set-up is very simple in an isolated environment and we do not know the reasons but this is not important at all. The main focus of the movie is on human emotions and reactions.

Just like the characters, we feel unsafe and helpless throughout the entire movie. The movie wants us to ask ourselves some basic questions about the concepts of home, family and society.

Cinematography and acting are also great. Page and Ellen are perfect in their leading roles as well as the chemistry between them.

This movie is not about saving humanity from a power disaster or an alien attack. It is not trying to set remarkable hero stories or highlighted character speeches. However it is quite a good movie which has a story to tell and some questions to ask.

I would just like to know what they were doing with several giant sacks of salt, but didn't have propane, emergency fuel, and even quickly ran out of soap!

They're starving to the point of reading books to continue their vegetarian diets of berries while there's wild boar roaming around?! They don't shoot one until big sis is vitamin deprived wasting away?

They smile when they burn the whole house down with all their life's mementoes (including all those precious books that apparently allowed them to survive so long) because a part of the roof caved in and big sis diagnosed and overreacted to suspected black mold by a little sniff in the stormy air?! Why didn't they just live in the *huge* dance studio?

Among a list of other silly things they did/didn't do, in real life they wouldn't have lasted that long, even with naiive dad around.

Hi! Probably one of the worst films I have ever watched. I strongly recommend investing your time better. I have completely lost mine, waiting for something to happen for nearly 100 minutes. You can stop reading right now, that was all I wanted to say, but it happens that I have to write ten lines if I want this to be published. And I really want it, because I feel really bad after losing mi precious time and I don't want anyone else to do the same mistake. I also want to apologize for my not so good English. Yes, I know, I'm not use to write in English, but I'm sure you understand what I just said.

Regards, Paco

This movie has some really convincing performances. Ellen Page is great, the depth of her emotions are intense and believable. Evan Rachel Wood is also really good, she does her sensitive character a lot of justice and portrays a vividly brutal scene with real honesty. This movie is unsettling because it is all too possible. What happens when we are suddenly left without power is shocking - we are plunged into a lawless past, with no protection. This movie really conveys that well, and at the same time explores the theme of what it means to be a family. I was moved to tears several times. The forest setting is lush and beautiful. The direction was good - the pace was tense and believable, the only slow part I didn't care for were some of the love scenes in the beginning, and the dance scenes were pretty dispensable, but all in all I really liked it!

Listed as a drama and a sci-fi here but there are not very much sci-fi about it except for it taking place a couple years maybe into the future, but yeah no time traveling, aliens or robots or any of the sort so don't go into it expecting anything of that.

It is a rather down to earth human drama with some scenes of suspense but mostly a drama about human endurance in hard times.

Reading through some of the negative comments on the message-board I get the impression that people thought that this would be some sort of lesbian erotic drama (maybe because the only trivia currently listed is that Ellen Page does her first nude scene in it) but that is not the case, and the scene is not very explicit either.

And some complain about animal cruelty, which is not even shown on screen, there is a quick scene where a animal gets visibly butchered but it's ridiculous to call it animal cruelty as the animal most likely suffered more humane treatment than the meat you buy in store and it was of course already dead.

So those things are something I think are partly the reasons why there are quite a few negative reviews about it.

Not saying that the movie is flawless but I think it was a well spent 95 minutes and one I will watch again sometime most likely.

To start this film has decent color, camera-work, and editing, even the acting is okay regardless of the fact the choices the girls make are just utterly unrealistic, and mindblowingly dumb. I was confused if it was the acting that was terrible but decided it was the story. Do teenage girls actually act like this? It kind of worries me that a simple power outage leads them to such extreme lack of intelligence. I felt as if i was watching preschoolers in teenage bodies. I eventually forced myself to stop watching this film because i was becoming angry at the foolishness i was seeing. So the power goes out and somehow its the end of the world. Spoilers start here. So all is well at first, a happy single dad raising his two daughters in a modest house in the woods an hour drive or so to a city or town. They obviously go to town at least every other day, on the day the powers out the car battery dies, the next day their intelligent father rigs up a chainsaw to charge the battery, I really hope the car wasn't a stick shift cause they could have just push started it, lets say it wasn't. So at this point we find out that Evan Rachel Wood as Eva, is into ballet, and her sister is Ellen Page as Nell except they look nothing alike but okay ill believe you its a movie. Meanwhile they go to the grocery store and run into a family friend? Who helps them out with some free candles, they get home and their dad has an accident while chopping wood with his chainsaw? This is the point where all intelligence is thrown out the window. Somehow the girls hear the accident happen and run out to find their dad laying on the ground with a leg wound, somehow the dad knows hes going to die but has them apply pressure to the wound, yet doesn't tell them to get help instead just says he loves them like hes on his death bed. The girls sorts of just stand in shock ,and honestly its daylight they have a working car why didn't they try to load him into it and drive him to a hospital? Do cell phones not exist? They didn't do anything to help him? Instead the just sleep at his now corpse then wake up and dig a hole and bury him. This had me so angry i was literally yelling WTF at this point, wondering if this was normal for them and if they somehow killed their mom and buried her in the back yard as well. The girls look teenage and the next day they move on like nothing happened, Eva goes back to practicing ballet while Nell somehow cooks 5 star meals with no electricity. They don't even try to tell anyone, I stopped watching shortly after disgusted by the utter stupidity i had just seen. Is this behavior normal? I grew up in Canada and had friends that lived in cabins in the forest an hour or 2 from town, they still had working phones, generators for backup, satellite TV, and live normal lives. Didn't these girls have family friends i was under the impression they knew the grocery store guy, maybe even had boyfriends. I am puzzled by anyone who was like okay with the decision-making of the girls ._. All i can say is this feels like it was written by a child, how did the director not have vision to stop production and say this has no logic instead its like wait a minute the viewers are unintelligent they just will watch Ellen Page and not even pay attention to this whole mental retardation. I'm insulted, never before have i felt like the world truly has become idiocracy. Im done!

Two great actresses go to a forest to conduct a train wreck. No spoilers. I'm not giving away anything. Watch it if you must. I suggest you delete this from your watch-list.

The actors are as great as ever -- the story is a book to burn for warmth. This movie is well acted and gripping in its intensity, but I can only warn other viewers, its third act collapses and the movie ends preposterously. Just inexplicable. It starts to stink pretty early on when it becomes apparent the editing or ad hoc screen writing started to jump around with implausible leaps.

It's so bad, you'd rather the ending was "woke up and it was all a dream." Again, no spoilers, the plot has nothing to do with a dream or surreal adventure (though I wish it were so.) It's a stinker of a movie.

This is probably one of the most boring movies that I've ever seen. To be able to make such a boring viewing experience of an unusual event is a feat in itself. The story goes nowhere, the choices that that the persons in the movie does is just stupid and unlogical. There is no continuity, thinks just happen that its off to the next disconnected scene. And of course when there is no gas you continue to dance. I'm just so surprised that good actresses like these lend themself to crap like this movie. Didn't they read the script. And above it all the have to slaughter an animal to make it a little more artsy fartsy while their at it. How this movie got the green light is a mystery.

The basic story is a family of 3.Two girls and a dad living in the middle of nowhere in the woods. Suddenly the power-grid breaks down in all of US or just the era( I never quite could figure that out) Than their dad dies in a chainsaw accident.And this is when the movie main story really starts.

The two girls have to fend for them self in the middle of the woods.Which is where the movie seem to struggle, in terms of what it wants to be.A lot of the scenes are just mere pointless,like several scenes focusing on the oldest sister dancing.There are no really point to these scenes,in terms of driving the movie forwards.

There are a lot of plot holes here to. They seem to be eating rather good all in all, considering there's no power, and there's no stores. they got a few chickens, from which they get egg but not much else. Also, I would expect that when you have no electricity and no food most of the time would go to hunt for food.So in terms of survival The movie portray the life of the two girls as pretty easy. Cause they do precious little in terms of getting food on the table. It just seem to magically appear. There are a few scenes showing them gathering berries.But you don't really get the feeling that there is struggle to find food

I found a few of the decisions the girls take to be interesting in terms of survival value.And caught my self wondering would a boy, make the same choices? Also, I would expect that when you have no electricity and no food most of the time would go to hunt for food.So in terms of survival The movie portray the life of the two girls as pretty easy. Cause they do precious little in terms of getting food on the table. It just seem to magically appear.

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The decision from the oldest sis made no sense.To use precious gasoline,to set fire to their old house cause it was full of mold.Just for the sake of burning it down,Was stupid. and utterly pointless. They could have used the a lot from it to build a new shelter