Children
Of A Darker Dawn
(2012/aka Railway
Children/MVD
Visual DVD)
Picture:
C Sound: C Extras: C Main Program: C+
An
unknown epidemic has killed off all the adults in the world and only
the children remain on Jake Figgis' Children
Of A Darker Dawn
(2012). Two sisters, Evie and Fran run into two other girls beating
up another girl, Alice and take her into their care. Alice then lead
them to a larger group of children in a building at the edge of the
city. However with more mouths to feed, newcomers often aren't
welcomed and with dwindling food supplies it turns into a vicious
battle for survival. What will one do for food?
In
a child-only world, two sisters move from place to place searching
for food and a place to belong. Every place they find other kids
with the same story as theirs, parents that gone mad and died, but
when their food gets stolen by some other girls, the find a whole
building full of kids. Their only comfort is each other, but in a
world without rules and survival of the strongest, their society is a
fragile existence. There are those who steal and enjoy tormenting
others... but only hiding their own past and pain. The real terrible
secret there is a group of girls have become cannibals and they see
all these kids not as peers or rivals, ...but food.
As
the case's quote states, this Irish production really was like a
modern Lord
of the Flies,
which asks the question 'Are kids evil by nature?' Take society and
it's rules away and what happens? Do humans revert back to animal
instinct? More often it splits into two groups, those who try to
maintain society and those who just want to take from it, both want
to survive, but question is how. All the survivor children have come
from some traumatic experience and some given into the heart of
darkness. The reason why society fails is very simple, not enough
resources and those who want them.
Too
bad the anamorphically enhanced 1.78 X 1 HD-shot image and lossy
Dolby Digital sound are on the weak side. Extra includes music video
and trailer.
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Ricky Chiang