Lection

Looks like a party. Burning Man Festival, or something. Filmed down South, somewhere, using locals. I'm not quite sure what the filmmaker was trying to convey. Maybe he just wanted to make a film. Seen on Tubi, the free streaming site, which has some great movies, and some really bad ones.

How anyone could classify this movie as a "thriller" is beyond my ability to comprehend. Or maybe in all the years since I finished school, the meaning changed. I gave it a two, because somehow they managed to keep their clothing in perfect conditions after at least 25 years. (No idea how many years before the initial fight, they were already living out there.)

Lection is a movie of few words. One of those mid-2000s wordpress blogger word clouds made of every spoken word in Lection's script would fit easily on a post-it note. So what's left is a lot of ambient sound. At the time of this writing, the soundtrack and audio mixing was placeholder. Visually, Lection is strong. It frames up shots in pleasing ways, and in a way that helps sell the story. My full review is pending because I feel that the audio is going to be such a HUGE part of what makes this piece work, and I wasn't listening to the real thing. I can say that I look forward to watching it again with revised audio.

Set in a future post-apocalyptic time where words are rarely used, it is an original comment on society today. The lack of dialogue can cause some scenes to feel longer than they are, but some good acting helps portray some main points better than dialogue could have. Really well done on a shoestring budget and worth the watch.

Sometimes change is inevitable, but does a change in leadership mean that conditions will change. Lection , sums up how a society who has lost the ability to communicate using the English language, tries to continue meet the needs of the villagers, even it means fighting for the governship... till death.