Nowhere (2023)

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I do question why Spain's survival film Nowhere had to be set in a dystopian parallel reality where food shortages have let most of Europe to purge the elderly, children and pregnant women from the population. Killing kids? It's a little hard to believe, and I don't feel like I really need to buy the premise when it could have been a pregnant woman from an actual refugee population (except, you know, unless you REALLY wanted to employ a white woman) to be trapped alone in a half-submerged shipping container where things get more complicated by her having and taking care of the baby in those circumstances. I'm getting a strong pro-life propaganda vibe from this one, and for the exact plot to work, one mustn't question the science too much (not that I'm an expert on ocean currents or anything, but the Gulf Stream goes THE OTHER WAY). And it's too bad that I have those objects because it's otherwise a good entry in the genre, with a very desperate situation, a woman trying to make things work with what's in disparate shipping crates, and sometimes making dumb mistakes that make you shout at the screen. In other words, whatever its flaws or politics, it's engaging. And certainly points for having a non-shark marine threat in there. It makes me want to give it the benefit of the doubt, but I know I probably shouldn't. 6 months 3 weeks ago