Part of a collection of short stories on Prime, this was your basic movie about a pair of brothers trying to survive in a frozen apocalypse.
I wasn't a film student, so I won't babble on about composition or try to read into subtext...the older brother knows everyone is out for themselves and tries to protect his irresponsible, childlike brother.
The younger brother dislikes this quality about his brother, until the older brother gets killed by strangers, stripped of his stuff, and left there. After that, the younger brother realizes its kill or be killed and shoots the first stranger he comes across and takes all his stuff, end of the film...
4 Reviews
Simple but effective
bob the moo11 December 2016
The post-apocalyptic world is not a new one for those of us that watch a lot of short films, and there are very few films where they manage to create something wholly new. Aftermath isn't one of those films, and it does have a pretty familiar feel to it. However it does still work because it is stripped down and simple in what it wants to do.
The first thing it does is create a simple, cold world where survival is on a knife's edge and death is sudden if you are lucky. The second thing is to put a pair of brothers as the central characters, with the older very much sheltering the younger – perhaps too much. The journey of the younger brother away from that protected state is well done here, with sudden violence played out against a cold backdrop. It isn't amazing as a plot, but it captures the cold, crisp place very well, and it reproduces that coldness in its world and characters. This does produce something quite dramatic and simple – and it works well for what it does.
The first thing it does is create a simple, cold world where survival is on a knife's edge and death is sudden if you are lucky. The second thing is to put a pair of brothers as the central characters, with the older very much sheltering the younger – perhaps too much. The journey of the younger brother away from that protected state is well done here, with sudden violence played out against a cold backdrop. It isn't amazing as a plot, but it captures the cold, crisp place very well, and it reproduces that coldness in its world and characters. This does produce something quite dramatic and simple – and it works well for what it does.
good work
Kirpianuscus17 January 2019
A pair of brothers. A cold post-apocalyptic world. Simple traits of a story of survive. And the inspired manner to tell a story about ages, relations, survive and manner to become yourself. Beautiful cinematography, decent performances. And the right, precise message. Short, far to be original, it is a good example of interesting and correct use of theme.
Creating fear about the future is in the long term programming us.
gerrith6 March 2021
Every dark domsday movie who is creating fear about our future, is in the long run programming us on a unconceous leve and will be an selvfulfilling prophecy. Unstead we could create a brighter future, were we could find good solutions together - and this also will create a automatic program in an uncertain future, where this strategies will show up and guid us. So what do we send into the future? Bad strategies we will see in our mind and create it in reality, when something happen? Or is it more wise to create better movies, with good strategies for a future in crisis, so we can remember them when nessecary.
Make a movie here and now about a possible future and only thinking about entertainment here and now, without reflecting about the consequenses a movie like this can have in a real crisis, is shortsighted and dumb. Creating fear in a past periode of time in a movie is ok and we can comprehent this easily. Doing the same in a possible future for us, only creates fear in people about the future and they loose the motivation to live. Filmmakere should know this and doing a better Job. Not giving us gray and ugly pictures, without any light in the end of a tunnel like this movie, but give us good pictures, good survival strategies and hope for a better future. Then it will be real Art we can use for something more then just a hour of dark entertainment.
Make a movie here and now about a possible future and only thinking about entertainment here and now, without reflecting about the consequenses a movie like this can have in a real crisis, is shortsighted and dumb. Creating fear in a past periode of time in a movie is ok and we can comprehent this easily. Doing the same in a possible future for us, only creates fear in people about the future and they loose the motivation to live. Filmmakere should know this and doing a better Job. Not giving us gray and ugly pictures, without any light in the end of a tunnel like this movie, but give us good pictures, good survival strategies and hope for a better future. Then it will be real Art we can use for something more then just a hour of dark entertainment.
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