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epitome of incomprehensibility
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Last night was my second time seeing the movie, and I was still engrossed by it.
Basically, a war vet in his forties lives in a national park in Oregon with his young teenage daughter. We don't get much insight into his thoughts, but it's pretty clear he's traumatized from his army experience - anxious about the noise of machinery, suspicious of the machinery of institutions, and so on. But he gets along well in the woods, savvy about that particular environment at least, and he cares a lot for his kid. On her part, she's quick to come to his defense when she gets questioned, but she starts questioning whether his lifestyle is the right one for her.
The person who plays her, Thomasin_McKenzie, is awesome at carrying expressions and emotion with minimal words. I think she was only a teenager herself when it was filmed.
Oh yeah, and a lot of the landscape shots are downright beautiful. You know I'm a tree hugger (literally sometimes), but there are some objectively beautiful trees.
For some reason I'd remembered the time frame wrong: I thought it was in the 80s and the father character was a Vietnam vet, but it was set close to the time the movie was filmed, around 2017. So perhaps he was in the first Iraq war or some NATO conflict in the 90s? It doesn't really say.
Anyway, I'd call this a_film_you_should_see! (Not there are really any "shoulds" in this situation - a_film_you_might_like, anyway.)
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