Lection (2019) User Reviews

Interesting premise, lack of finesse

[barton-frost · 2/10 · 16 November 2020]

The premise is super interesting, but the production team didn't really think through the entire thing.

How do they still have propane, but lifes changed enough for them to change spellings? How do they still have colored votive candles? The cages are too new.

I get a 22k budget is small, but jeez. They couldn't atleast match the playing to the drum beats? Where did all this supermarket french bread come from?

Oh, no!

[song_of_rainbow · 2/10 · 17 March 2021]

How anyone could classify this movie as a "thriller" is beyond my ability to comprehend. Or maybe in all the years since I finished school, the meaning changed. I gave it a two, because somehow they managed to keep their clothing in perfect conditions after at least 25 years. (No idea how many years before the initial fight, they were already living out there.)

Burning Man

[bemyfriend-40184 · 2/10 · 29 June 2021]

Looks like a party. Burning Man Festival, or something. Filmed down South, somewhere, using locals. I'm not quite sure what the filmmaker was trying to convey. Maybe he just wanted to make a film. Seen on Tubi, the free streaming site, which has some great movies, and some really bad ones.

Big Snooze Fest

[ferdmalenfant · 1/10 · 30 June 2020]

If you can find anything exciting or even mildly interesting in this $25 budget movie, you must be living a really dull life. Like watching pain dry.

Bread Bread Bread

[nogodnomasters · 1/10 · 9 July 2020]

Something happened. We don't know what happened because no one talks much, but they learn to speak. They have bread, but no one bakes bread, nor are there wheat fields. They cook over an open fire of sticks. It seems the only buildings that survived are trailers. People sit around, grunt, and hand out bread (spelled bred.) Then there is an "election" which like gorilla society the alpha male defends his position through combat. There is a scene near the end when they discuss using words for elections. This would be the wonderful amazing theme of the film, a critique of modern society that I failed to grasp. A better criticism of elections is "Irresistible." I managed to stay awake during that film, unlike this snooze fest.

What is that!!

[bsher-01265 · 1/10 · 10 August 2020]

Kindergarten children can make a better film than this. Your right. What is this, I hope that is the last time you do? Why is this? Please do not do it again

Possibly the dumbest movie I've ever seen

[johnkenerson · 1/10 · 24 October 2020]

This is the kind of apocalypse I wa to to be a part of. Everyone is clean, well-fed, they have electricity and drum circles.

All these reviews saying this is a commentary on elections in current society are complete pseudo-intellectual nonsense. There is no commentary, no story, no dialogue... whoever greenlit this piece of garbage should be drummed out of the business.

The girl wrapped up in the clothesline absolutely indicates how stupid this "society" is and deserves to die out.

I can't believe this thing became a finished film. If this is the state of indie films, we're in trouble.

Good prermise - Terrible execution

[donw1948 · 1/10 · 23 March 2021]

OMG - this indie proves that you can't accomplish much with a miniscule budget. The entire budget was apparently expended on the cast, to encourage them to not burst out laughing. Not a thriller and about 1 hour longer than it needs to be.

Looking forward to revised audio

[fabmud · 26 November 2019]

Lection is a movie of few words. One of those mid-2000s wordpress blogger word clouds made of every spoken word in Lection's script would fit easily on a post-it note. So what's left is a lot of ambient sound. At the time of this writing, the soundtrack and audio mixing was placeholder. Visually, Lection is strong. It frames up shots in pleasing ways, and in a way that helps sell the story. My full review is pending because I feel that the audio is going to be such a HUGE part of what makes this piece work, and I wasn't listening to the real thing. I can say that I look forward to watching it again with revised audio.

Less said , is best said

[drivesouth-44318 · 10/10 · 5 March 2020]

Sometimes change is inevitable, but does a change in leadership mean that conditions will change. Lection , sums up how a society who has lost the ability to communicate using the English language, tries to continue meet the needs of the villagers, even it means fighting for the governship... till death.

Relevant take on our current system

[avannucci7 · 7/10 · 26 November 2019]

Set in a future post-apocalyptic time where words are rarely used, it is an original comment on society today. The lack of dialogue can cause some scenes to feel longer than they are, but some good acting helps portray some main points better than dialogue could have. Really well done on a shoestring budget and worth the watch.