(Flash Review)
Let's say your town or city was trounced and occupied during WWII and you were forced to flee. At wars end, you attempt to return but some other regular people have assumed control on your house, possessions, businesses and your homeland. What would you do and where would you go? This is a lesser told fact of war that isn't portrayed too often in war movies and is the impetus for how this film's story begins. The community that has assumed control over this village is alerted to two original inhabitants returning and get really worried about what they will now do. So much so that the collective and personal guilt seeps out of them and throws their daily life into shambles even though the two original local's story is not told much. You only learn the current inhabitants were less than honorable to the original locals and blame from that flames other collective strife. The story was sort of vague and you didn't connect at all with the original locals but there was enough meat to make you think and wonder. The cinematography was outstanding and the pacing was appropriate.
Let's say your town or city was trounced and occupied during WWII and you were forced to flee. At wars end, you attempt to return but some other regular people have assumed control on your house, possessions, businesses and your homeland. What would you do and where would you go? This is a lesser told fact of war that isn't portrayed too often in war movies and is the impetus for how this film's story begins. The community that has assumed control over this village is alerted to two original inhabitants returning and get really worried about what they will now do. So much so that the collective and personal guilt seeps out of them and throws their daily life into shambles even though the two original local's story is not told much. You only learn the current inhabitants were less than honorable to the original locals and blame from that flames other collective strife. The story was sort of vague and you didn't connect at all with the original locals but there was enough meat to make you think and wonder. The cinematography was outstanding and the pacing was appropriate.