Hello Folks,
Following on from the 1st favourite of mine Wolf Manor from this years great Mayhem Festival next up is Vesper.
It was a film I had seen a few stories about and I couldn’t quite put my finger on what had grabbed my attention but there was something about the film that really peaked my interest and I must say it surpassed all my expectations.
Its a story of a young girl named Vesper played brilliantly by Rafiella Chapman who was also in Tim Burton’s Miss Peregrine’s home for for Peculiar Children and as a young actress she is superb in this and definitely has a very bright future ahead of her.
It tells the story of the collapse of earth’s eco-system and is focused on a group of survivors trying to get some kind of normality back and do what they can to keep the human race alive. This particular group have a leader, Jonas played by Eddie Marsan who personally has become a favourite British actor of mine in the last few years, problem is he is a total shit head!
Vesper has her bed ridden father who can communicate through a floating droid that follows her around and has a painted face similar to Wilson from the Tom Hanks movie “Castaway” who helps her out when he can and does his bed ridden best to keep her spirits up.
Vesper is a lot more intelligent than basically all the people around her give her credit for but when a craft crashes in the woods it changes everything. She has a plan to get planet earth back on track to being how it was before the eco disaster, But will she succeed?
That’s all I can really say without spoiling it and I was going to put a trailer on but that could spoil things so you haven’t got one !
One thing that did surprise me was how great the special FX were and the scenery was brilliant, Some have said that it lays on the message of climate change a bit heavy but honestly lets face it if we do carry on like we are we are actually fucked, So it may well do but don’t be an arsehole and rant about that if that’s your opinion just enjoy it for a bloody great dystopian look into the future and if you do get chance to see it in a big screen please do, It looked great and I would definitely love to see it on the big screen again.
8/10 From Jonny T.
