The Survivalist (2015)

Slo naslov: - 

Država: VB

Leto: 2015

Dolžina: 104',  Imdb

Žanri: Drama, ZF, Triler  

Slo recenzija: Filmoljub

Režija: Stephen Fingleton

Scenarij: Stephen Fingleton

Igrajo: Mia Goth, Martin McCann, Olwen Fouere

[SLO]

Neimenovani mlajši moški (Martin McCann) sam živi v leseni kolibi na jasi sredi gozda, kjer skromne posevke in lastno življenje brani pred vsiljivci. Kdorkoli pride, gotovo nima prijateljskih namenov; svetu je zmanjkalo nafte, kmalu potem tudi hrane. Človek je postal človeku volk. Med obdelavo zemlje, ki jo gnoji s trupli neznancev in lastnimi izločki (olje za petrolejko prideluje iz brezovega lubja), se mora nenehno ozirati okrog sebe, s šibrovko pripravljen na vse. Tako je uspešno preživel že sedem let in samota (ter pomanjkanje ženskega dotika) sčasoma terja davek pri njegovi prištevnosti; razen tega ga mučijo spomini na pretekli dogodek, v katerem je ostal brez brata, s komer sta včasih ropala človeške postojanke. Na njegovo posestvo nekoč zaideta sestradani popotnici; v zameno za hrano in kakšno noč pod streho mu mlada Milja (Mia Goth) ponudi spolne usluge, vendar ima njena pretkana belolasa mati Kathryn (Olwen Fouere) povsem drugačne namene. Začne se napeta igra živcev in izkušenj, ki bo prej ali slej zahtevala žrtev: za vsakogar preprosto ni dovolj hrane — in iz gozda vselej prežijo tudi drugi volkovi v človeški podobi, ki pobijajo in plenijo vse, na kar naletijo. (Filmoljub)

[ENG]

In a kill-or-be-killed world where starvation is rife and strangers are always dangerous, The Survivalist lives off the grid, and by his wits. When a starving woman and her teenage daughter discover his forest refuge, his loneliness drives him to overcome his suspicion and strike a bargain with them in return for bed and board. But as desire becomes stronger than necessity, the exchange becomes an uneasy, ongoing arrangement which threatens not only his carefully constructed world but also his life. (Written by Bulldog Distribution Limited)

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The Survivalist is a spare, foreboding thriller about a near-paranoid thirty-ish isolate scratching a subsistence living in a Northern Ireland forest following the disintegration of organised society. His fears for his life are justified when a suspicious mother and daughter, then a band of armed pillagers, come seeking his provisions. Not least because the climactic skirmishes are visceral and unvarnished, Northern Irish filmmaker Stephen Fingleton’s gripping feature debut serves as a bracing antidote to the Hunger Games and Divergent school of lavish “dystopian’ sci-fi tent-poles. 

(Graham Fuller, Screen Daily)

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