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I think this movie came out at a good time: right after hurricane sandy. The main difference between the two disasters is that hurricane sandy was actually devastating because people lost their homes and some lost their lives. This one though is basically just a bunch of kids who don't have power. And its cold. Didn't the pilgrims have to go through the same thing? Only without a house to stay in or drugs?

Yes all of the kids here do drugs. But they also have sex and do yoga, and thats about the extent of their collective character. In fact i don't even remember the names of any of them, but there were about 7 main ones. There were 4 guys: Big Beard Guy, Short Beard Guy with Long Hair, Short Beard Guy with Short Hair, and Mustached Guy. Then there were three girls: Asian Girl with Bangs, Blonde Girl and Other Blonde Girl. There might have been another one too but i think she died.

You are introduced to these characters with an annoyingly close-up yoga scene. And after this you'd expect the camera would get a little less close up but it doesn't. The whole movie is pretty much shot in close-up. I read some other reviews that said this makes the viewer feel they are right there in the "action", but don't be fooled by this because there is no action. In fact, not much happens after the yoga scene besides long silent pauses. The characters lose power and complain that its cold. Well duh, its winter. The main character, Big Beard Guy, pulls out an iphone at this point. Right here their dilemma seems much less dire to me because couldn't he just, you know...call for help?

Or they could all drive away, like the few who did and ditched them (these were not main characters). Annoying? Yes. Much like the main characters beard. There were several scenes where he was holding a candle and i was praying to god he would accidentally set fire to it, but no. He and his beard have sex with all of the ladies in the house and is met with much disdain by Short Beard Short Hair, who likes heroin.

So there's some...drama(?) between the two. Then Big Beard gets what he deserves by getting poisoned after selfishly eating some of the little food they had with one of the ladies he has sex with. She dies, unlike him for some reason. Despite his selfishness, Asian Bangs Girl adores Big Beard and wants to be only with him instead of having threesomes. But this feeling is not mutual. So at this point everyone besides Asian Bangs decides Big Beard is a menace, and Short Beard Long Hair tries to shoot him. He does not though.

If these characters don't sound very interesting, they will after you remember there are three other characters who do absolutely nothing: Mustached Guy, Blonde Girl and Other Blonde Girl. Between scenes (still close-ups mind you), you may catch glimpses of them and say, "oh yeah! they're in the movie." then instantly forget, and question yourself after the movie is over if they were ever there at all. I for one cant really do this because i left the movie before it was over. The reason being i lost power during hurricane sandy and was stuck for several days being bored out of my skull, and this movie just made me re-live it all over again. To me, that was about as entertaining as Formica, so i left. But if you like watching people who have run out of things to talk about and starve and do things that make you go, "huh?", then this movie just might be up your alley. If it is, i assume your alley is on Bedford Avenue.

Have you ever spent whole morning sitting in a small town coffee shop, looking out the window? I mean, a really really small town. Can you imagine it? I once did. I was lucky, I saw three cars drove by. One lady walked with two children. No dog, no cat, some birds. The shop owner apologized for yesterday's newspaper, his son will bring today's newspaper home in the late afternoon. Nothing happened, or, nothing worthy to talk about. I wondered why the owner kept the shop open, I had learned not to ask the obvious - for whatever reason, what's the point if I asked.

Do you get it now? You read my rather direction less, hollow though. Have you learned anything about me? Does it make any difference? Do you care? That's the movie.

A group of people lived in a remote house. They did not do much of anything. They did not talk much of anything. They did not plan to do anything. They lived their life, but nothing really happened. They cooked, they ate, they bathed, they slept, they made love -- they lived their daily routine, but where was movie worthy stuff? I don't want to call them hippies, because hippies have dreams; those people were minimalist. I don't want to call this thing a movie; it was just a few post cards displayed together.

One of the worst films ever to play to the Tribeca Film Festival had the press corps stumbling out of the screening with pained looks on their faces.

The film is about a bunch of hipsters in a retreat farm house during some apocalyptic event trying to survive. They do it badly and a bunch of them die.

This was the one of the first films where I realized that official synopsis lie about films and often give you information that isn't in the film- for example there is no mention of Brooklyn in the film but the synopsis says that's where everyone is from. Additionally it's never clear what the event is, we get bits of a radio broadcast but it isn't clear. There is talk of a blizzard but there is so little snow you can see the grass under foot.

The film is a mess and it might have worked if there were aliens or zombies.

Avoid at all costs unless you want to see a man with the longest mustache hair on record- its longer than his beard

*** Spoilers ***

I kept wondering

1) why they spent so much energy on chopping down trees and splitting logs when they had several collapsed buildings on the property full of old wood planks

2) why they did not try to go to nearby farmhouses for food

they were lucky the winter looked really mild, and i thought the heroin addict would freak out on them at some point (he thought about shooting long beard guy)

they did not seem too concerned about the people that left in a car to get gas, and never tried to walk into town

not much of an ending