Film · Angel Studios · 2024
Homestead
65Worth an evening.
A fence is not a town. Worth an evening if you will argue about who is outside it. PG-13.
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The review
Los Angeles is hit. The grid follows. Jeff Eriksson, an ex-Green Beret, gets his family to the Homestead, Ian Ross's compound in the Rockies. Neal McDonough plays Ross. Bailey Chase plays Eriksson. The film, from the book Black Autumn, then asks the only question a bunker is good for: how long a locked gate can resist the people at it, and the people inside it. Ben Smallbone directed. It is PG-13. Critics were cooler than the audience. The coolness is fair. The question is still the right one.
Do not watch it as permission to disappear. A store of food and a rifle are tools. They become a moral failure when the compound is a personality and the town is left to burn as a lesson. A family with older children can watch it and then have the argument the film is for. Who eats. Who decides. Who is still a neighbor when he is hungry. The number is 65. The series continues the same compound. It does not get a second, higher score for lasting longer.
Journal
Keep Homestead in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 65. Yours can differ.
The glance
Piety is the thin one.
Can conscience actually stop someone, or is reverence only in the shot so it can be mocked?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
Sweet Land
76 instead of 65
Sweet Land is still a drama film, and it scores 76 instead of 65. What you gain is industry: Harvest is the crisis.
The eight
- 7Industry
A compound is logistics: food, power, a watch. The work is the plot.
- 7Household
Two families under one roof. The question is whether it stays a house.
- 5Piety
Faith is in the room. The test on screen is the gate, not a sermon.
- 6Courage
Staying, and deciding who else may stay, is the nerve it is interested in.
- 7Republic
A handful of people become a polity the hour the country goes dark.
- 6Temperance
Fear is the appetite. The film is not in love with the blast.
- 6Truth
A novel's attack, filmed. The human question does not need the bomb to be real.
- 8Stewardship
What they keep, and who they refuse, is the whole moral fact.
Where to watch
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