A brutal story, told in a too decently perfect way.

Rating: 8/10 (10 January 2016)

I left the cinema with a deep satisfied feeling in my chest. The one you have after an exhausting hike, or heavy swimming exercise. in this case it was a deep satisfaction of my soul. The photography exposes nature in such a deep way that it resonated with every cell in my body.
The story is simple. No need for explanation. The acting is good but not brilliant. The music is close to perfect and its timing and paste is unearthly good.
The film left me with an uneasy feeling - hence the rating, which is not a 10. this movie is too perfect. The photography, the coloring and the light are too perfect for a story that in it itself exposes the roughness of nature and humankind. It does not fit; or you celebrate roughness in your whole production or you don't. But not half. It's like the director is not making a statement in one clear direction. He over-exposes nature, lighting, color and most of all the sound. It gives me the feeling he wants me to be dragged into that unforgiving side of pure nature. He wants me to be 'dirty' myself by boosting up all the parameters. But then....on the other side, he stays so....neat. So clean. The images are so decently, obsessively....beautiful. The sound-pallet is close to perfect...
So, as a viewer, i feel tempted to jump into the rough dirtiness of this story, but when i jump, fear, fight and survive.....and leave the cinema.... I am still clean and neat.
I miss.uncompromisingly dirtiness.