Apparently this film derived from supporting an earlier music project. It feels to me somewhat cobbled together and poorly thought through.
The natural scenes are pleasant enough but too ponderous and awkwardly edited. The camera spends an age from the same longshot watching logs being sawn and split, not terribly skillfully. The camera tracks the main character giving his daughter a long piggy back through the forest in which they're identifying trees. I would've liked to see the trees they're talking about but we don't.
Then there is the arrival of the outsiders tasked with persuading villagers to embrace a new camping site which may have potential problems for the area. The outsiders are seduced and are clunkily charmed into wavering from their mission.
I might have endured these, and other shortcomings I perceived, and tried to come up with a meaningful interpretation, had it not been for the ending which made me feel as if I'd been duped into wasting the previous one and a half hours watching it. Everything that came before then seemed clumsy and pretentious. It was as if a serious nature documentary relied on an appearance by a Muppet character for it's denouement.
The natural scenes are pleasant enough but too ponderous and awkwardly edited. The camera spends an age from the same longshot watching logs being sawn and split, not terribly skillfully. The camera tracks the main character giving his daughter a long piggy back through the forest in which they're identifying trees. I would've liked to see the trees they're talking about but we don't.
Then there is the arrival of the outsiders tasked with persuading villagers to embrace a new camping site which may have potential problems for the area. The outsiders are seduced and are clunkily charmed into wavering from their mission.
I might have endured these, and other shortcomings I perceived, and tried to come up with a meaningful interpretation, had it not been for the ending which made me feel as if I'd been duped into wasting the previous one and a half hours watching it. Everything that came before then seemed clumsy and pretentious. It was as if a serious nature documentary relied on an appearance by a Muppet character for it's denouement.