Trash and Progress

USA • 2012 • 94m •

• Directed by: Abraham Dieckman. • Starring: Maryssa Wanlass, Remi Barron, James Camblin, Lindsay Cookson, Jesse Filipko, Conor Hamill, Daniel Korth, Elizabeth Marks, Peter Jonathan McArthur, Samuel Richie, Jessica Robertson, Mia Simone, Charlie Vaughn. • Music by: Mouzhan Yousefi.

A rookie journalist has returned to the abandoned frontier of Earth with the dream of writing a career-making story about the descendants of those who were left behind. There she finds a decaying society ruled through fear by a mysterious, ageless despot.

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I don't know how this rates as high as 5.7. A rambling, incoherent mess.. Actually. underneath the lousy story development. there does seem to be a quite complicated story. The problem is that you're left with only badly constructed fragments as you move along. IMHO it has bad character development, an unclear plot and barely decent acting. A lot of the elements are just left, with little or no explanation.

The main character Ellie Parrish is shown to be just a crash survivor but the description says she's a 'rookie journalist' - which isn't truly suggested until 35 minutes into it. Also it isn't until then that we see her show ANY reaction to the fact that her husband died in the crash.

Since you don't get a real feel for who these characters are, or what they're goals are, it's hard to follow. The story wanders giving it an unfocused series of side events. The acting is stilted and drags between the characters and the scenes. .

Review by Joel Waite from the Internet Movie Database.

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