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La cinquième saison (2012)
the human way of dealing with things is wrong
Independent, low budget, somewhat arty ecologist drama, reminiscent of Shyamalan's movies - although this technically describes it, the movie manages to get far beyond this description and stand autonomously as a novel and remarkable tale. "La cinquième saison" is not just a story about man and nature, but about human nature. I found its message reminiscent of Asghar Farghadi's films: . While the Iranian director's movies proposed a feminine, compromising approach as opposed to the aggressive, destructive masculine one, in Woodworth's and Brosens's film the human way (as opposed to some natural or divine way - but nature or providence are silent in this movie, this is the problem, in fact) of behaving is shown to have disastrous consequences: our most normal reactions - parsimony turning to avarice and selfishness, frustration turning to retribution and revenge, lack of solutions turning to lack of understanding of the world we are living in. A philosophical explanation not only of the environmental or economic problems we might be facing nowadays, but of the all-time human problems we've been creating to ourselves and our world throughout the history of mankind.