Lection

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.)

The writer of this should really just STOP and quit while they're "ahead". Steaming POS film. Honestly, the car chase scene I filmed in high school was better than this. At least it was funny, because we knew it was bad. Whoever made this doesn't seem to comprehend that they really shouldn't have gone there at all.

Unimaginative drek, through and through. It would take thousands of years for language to devolve to the degree the dialog was in this movie. And yet they're wearing 21st century clothing, so it's gotta be set in this century or at most, the one after.

Also, it was amusing how several of the characters were dressed like cringe Redditors, and one tent had Christmas lights. Maybe the solar panels still worked? LOL. That may have been the only enjoyable part, just laughing at the plot holes. I seriously regret watching this and am writing this review while it's playing, barely paying attention.

OMG - this indie proves that you can't accomplish much with a miniscule budget. The entire budget was apparently expended on the cast, to encourage them to not burst out laughing. Not a thriller and about 1 hour longer than it needs to be.

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?

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.