Ella then uses her father’s own gun to shoot him when he wasn’t expecting it. When they arrive on the property, Adam kills two of the men, but her father shoots Adam. Shelby was a fiercely religious, and probably abusive, father, and it so happened that Shelby was chasing them down. But he decides to stay.Īpparently, Ella had paid Adam to help her leave her father, Daniel Shelby. So the woman declares that the land is hers. Better than that, the deed to the land and the house are right there. They go through the house and the barn, and realize that it’s thoroughly deserted. They eventually stumble out onto the property they came to live on. But we don’t know what, because, before she does it, we jump backwards in time to when she and Adam were running through the woods years and years before. And so Ella (played by Lydia Wilson – and you’d know from About Time) decides that she is going to take Lily down to the cave to show her the fountain of youth.īut before they get there, Adam intercepts them…they argue, and Lily is shot by Adam. That is until the wounds of her hands are mysteriously healed by the water they get from a nearby cave. Instead of running her off, they invite her to stay, and she settles in for a bit. But when she stumbles onto the land of a secretive married couple, her life takes a turn. Now, cut to, Lily (played by Madeline Brewer of Handmaid’s Tale and the Black Mirror episode entitled Raiman), apparently a terminal cancer patient, heading out into the woods for a final hike to die. But hopefully I was the rare exception on this front. I realized this was a fountain of youth movie! I was really curious where this was going to go, and yet, I was a little bummed they gave it away with the titles. Did anyone else figure out what was going on because of the vintage photos of moonshine distilleries? We had just been told that this was going to be a modern movie.
The secret of this film was unveiled to me the moment the titles started. Soon they are run off the land by gunpoint by “Adam” (played by Nick Blood). The movie opens with two male hikers wandering onto the land of a married couple living in the middle of nowhere. It’s definitely a movie that will give us a lot to talk about. Come back after you’ve gotten your hands on a copy of this interesting, quiet, idea-piece of a movie. Which we’ll do momentarily… but only after all of you who haven’t seen the movie yet move along. That’s about as far as I can I go with the story without swan diving into the land of spoilers. Eventually she stumble into a field, on land that is guarded and protected by a married couple with a history, and something to hide. A woman goes hiking and gets hopelessly lost. Makes you ask a million tough questions as this thing unspools. It’s like an intriguing idea piece, in the realm of a Twilight Zone sort of a movie. It’s got a cast of ten maybe, or so, and only like five with speaking parts. So today, I’ve got an interesting, avant garde movie, even for this site. But that is what we do here, we find movies that are not cookie cutter Hollywood money manufacturers, but rather interesting, and hard to understand, and we dissect them and talk about them. Or if you are hoping for more of a refined mindjob… then shall I interest you in this nice Chardonnay with woody after tones? It’s called The Kindergarten Teacher. Or if you are looking for something a little more adventurous, why don’t you try Green Room? That thing could strip paint off an old house, but I can’t recommend it enough. Some of the recent gems we’ve been having fun with, you ask? Oh, shall I regale you then? Right, maybe Bird Box, Bandersnatch, and The Haunting of Hill House would be three really great mainstream movies that might be good training wheels movies for one new to this like you. And in order to find people, like you, with similar movie tastes, and similar, non-Hollywood preferences, I post the movies that have my head spinning more than the others. This site definitely is not a movie review website. Sure, I rate movies, but only so you can know how much I love them. A couple times a week I bring you movies, movies with interesting ideas, and we talk about them.
I scour the interwebs in order to find small, independent films with new and interesting ideas.
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