muons The movie rather looks like a badly edited mashup from survivor episodes focusing on the boring story of two failing contestants. This introduction should tell enough about the quality of directing and script upfront. The tenuous plot is set up on a power outage that lasts 15+ months. In today's living standards this is as close as you could get to an apocalyptic world but the movie never goes into that avenue. Instead, it uses the power outage as a stage decoration backdrop for the whimsical behaviors of two sisters whose survival instincts and decisions can't match a five year old. The grindingly slow pace and wispy dialog don't help the poor quality of the movie, either. Part of the reason is that there are hardly any subplots that would help to pick up the tempo except for a couple of instances which come out of nowhere and fizzle out quickly. As for the acting, one can speak about some decent efforts from Ellen Page but owing to the dismal script, she, too fails a convincing performance. Finally, the absurdity of the ending is beyond description.Now some technical criticism is in order. The lack of electricity for the collapse of our modern world is a valid reason but not realistic at all. Indeed the movie makes no attempt to give a rationale for the lack of power for so long. Including an asteroid hit at the scale of Yucatan peninsula some 65 million years ago, there's no natural or human made disaster that would take out the grid (not even the internet) for more than a few weeks, owing to the distributed nature of the network. Yes, it is fragile and unstable enough to go awry with something as mundane as an unbalanced power load but it's only a matter of days to restore it back because the infrastructure and source is always there. Besides that, our social order and life in big cities are all organized around electrical power. As much implausible as it seems, even a month long outage would take us to a madmax world order since we can't wind back to 1850's at the snap of a finger. In the absence of electrical power, there would be no universities, no hospitals, no dance clubs, no tv stations, no malls but famine, disease, marauding gangs, plundering, killing rampage and anarchy on the streets. Without making a a reference to such a chaotic world, showing the girls continuing their everyday life with the usual concerns of the modern life is naive and pathetic beyond comprehension.

lewilewis1997 I might be sticking my neck out and going against the stream; but this grabbed me, held me, and passed before I was ready. I'd checked out the IMDB reviews before watching this on BBC iPlayer, and almost didn't watch. I'm glad I took the gamble, this was and IS a fantastic story on so many levels. I'm watching it again as soon as I've written this.The performances are true, I totally sympathised with the characters. There's an easy, laconic unraveling of the story. We're definitely made to think. A lot of the clues about the disintegration of society are subtle, every day events. I found it rather pleasing that the Writers/Director (Jean Hegland, Patricia Rozema) give us the credit of being able to think for ourselves without making things too obvious. The house itself becomes a metaphor for society, so we can track it's metamorphosis, degradation and death knowing this is happening to everyone, everywhere.TRYING TO GIVE A BROAD PICTURE WITHOUT SPOILERS (cover your eyes);Nell (Ellen Page) is little sister, cosseted and nurtured by Dad (Kallum Keith Rennie) and much bigger sister Eva (Evan Rachel Wood). She is destined to live a comfortable life, apart from the gap year travelling the world or in The Peace Corp (I made that last bit up, she doesn't, but you get the picture). They live in a gorgeous, all mod cons and tech house in the forest three days walk from town. Not a problem with a 4x4 and plenty of petrol, a big deal without them. A minor setback becomes an all encompassing disaster; a small power cut drags out becoming a national (and possibly global) emergency, slowly eroding a rural society and its access to all of the modern comforts that were taken for granted like full petrol pumps, the internet and bulging supermarket shelves. There's an unfortunate accident that leaves both sisters in limbo not really knowing what to do or how to get by. Starvation is a real threat, the girls are totally isolated and just floundering. However Nell starts to rise to the challenge forced by hunger to dig deep and tap into that survival instinct. The one inherited from our ancestors; thousands of generations of hunter gatherer survivors. Slowly the girls learn how to use the forest and realise they're surrounded by an abundance of food and everything they could need, Starvation needn't be an option anymore. The self sufficiency continues, the girls actually start to thrive, although totally isolated, they are almost content. But, as always, it's not to last, dastardly 'modern man' almost destroys the idyll. Although his interference is brief he inadvertently begins the new chapter for humanity, setting in motion events that allow the girls to cut their ties with the past and all of its modern ills, and embrace the new world with a sense of purpose...This is a film for thinkers, not a jack hammering compilation of steam punk violence or fake morality where 'the good guys' always win and the bad guys always die in regret. If you need to be told what to think and want instant gratification, then you might not enjoy Into The Forrest at all. If you have an inquiring mind and like independent non Hollywood style films, then I think you'll like this, a lot. I can't be that wrong, can I?

kosmasp An apocalyptic movie about a family in the forest. I know a couple of friends who completely hated this movie. And there is one scene that is really despicable. When you see it, you'll understand. Some may even say it is completely unnecessary. It is depressing and I guess it was supposed to even further challenge the viewer.Whatever the case, the movie itself is pretty slow and some also might say boring. It is a slow burner, so there is that for starters. And there is really not that much going on. It does have some merits, especially in the family dynamic, but overall there is something missing. The actors do try their best, but it just isn't enough to put this in a really good place.

gogeccc 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.