There are some
movies that are worth skipping, and this is one of them. I blame myself for
seeing it.
The Survivalist is a movie that’s so into itself that it doesn’t even try to make you enjoy what it has to offer. What it does offer is another I Am Legend-style setting, where only a few people are present in the movie. Set sometime in the future, the film depicts a time when the world’s population has dropped drastically, and food is scarce.
Unlike I Am
Legend, however, there are other humans around—hungry humans who are willing to
raid and kill to get food. The movie’s main character isn’t particularly
inviting either. It introduces him dragging a body and burying it. He lives in
a cabin where he’s planted food to survive, staying far away and isolated from
everyone else.
Like in I Am
Legend, two more people eventually join him in his survival silo: a woman and
her daughter. In this case, though, the woman is older, and her daughter
becomes the bargaining chip she uses to get food from the survivalist. She
offers her daughter to him for sex—an offer he happily accepts. The next day,
he tries to kick them out so he can be left alone with his crops. But some kind
of relationship develops between them when the woman’s daughter is kidnapped,
and he has to go save her.
Time passes, and one day, the group is raided. They survive the raid, but their food doesn’t. The shortage becomes a problem, as the three of them realize they can’t live on such limited resources.
You’d think more
things would happen in this movie, but the main issue I had while writing the
plot is that, even after re-reading it, I feel like that’s all there is to know
about it. I can’t recommend anyone go see it because there’s nothing to see. You’d
expect a movie set in some form of future chaos to have enough chaos and action
to make the experience eventful, but get ready to be let down.
Despite winning
many independent film awards and earning a BAFTA nomination, you’d think this
movie would come packing. But for me, the acting had nothing to offer. The
screenplay wasn’t eventful, so there’s no need for praise, and the whole
setting seems like it was done on some dude’s farm.
Don’t bother
watching this film—I’ve already done you the favor.
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