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.

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.

The premise is super interesting, but the production team didn't really think through the entire thing.

How do they still have propane, but lifes changed enough for them to change spellings? How do they still have colored votive candles? The cages are too new.

I get a 22k budget is small, but jeez. They couldn't atleast match the playing to the drum beats? Where did all this supermarket french bread come from?

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.)