Walking Against the Rain. review

Walking Against the Rain. Dir. Scott lyus.

I have no idea about you or your life. But I know this; over the last two years.

No one had fun, and everyone on some level endured.

For me, it was about Shielding, I live with my folks, and my two hours exercise was stropping outside in our Garden after I finished my online shift and busting a move while Johnny Vaughn chipped in, “Don, ‘t worry…I’ll take it from here,” and I had that time to me before I got the food ready for mum.

Scott owned a drone, flew it over my house, and stole my moves for the most advantageous dance sequence a post-apocalypse has seen. Conveying the need to embrace and rejoice even the respite in dark times and fills his first feature with two great young leads, Tommy and Blair,that bring a sense of passion to this quiet place of the Peak District.

Scott manages to create a lovely low-key tension in the road movie, as our survivors only connected via walkie-talkies aim for some form of civilization, each taking and encountering very different obstacles while looking for food and conserving their electrical batteries while trying to keep their emotional ones fully charged.

While the film story is relatively modest, Scott makes some audacious choices for a first feature. While we follow them, the character of the scenery is allowed vivid third character. Partly shot with the vaseline lens of a tourist board while keeping the frailty with the sound of its genre kin ‘The Road,’ Scott also ensures the film does not look out of place on the big screen. We watch one of our leads for the better part of 10 minutes before Blair even speaks. When she does the frantic pace with which Sophia Eleni delivers the character so much energy, it is the film’s heart, while Tommy, stoically played by Reece Douglas, is the head. 

The supporting characters add a real sense of difference to the world and how it has gone wrong. Diane Spencer as the  Folk Horror cultist and Johnny Vivash as the Avuncular stranger help broaden the range with both mania and pathos elevating it beyond merely too hip young things living some immersive experience version of ‘Knightmare’ and convey an accurate setting our leads need to survive and negotiate.

The film plays to its weaknesses as much as its strengths. It’s a creature film about characters, endurance, and realities. The creatures are kept in the dark and filtered when they can’t be. But ultimately, someone got lucky and was walking by a skip when they closed Alien War at the Trocadero.

The film’s climax is somewhat 80’s in its exquisite nature. There is a narrative referring to the sound of Seven trumpets in this film.

Given the work that has gone into getting this film here, I feel that. They all play for the cast, crew, and Scott himself as congratulations on cinema graduation

See it as soon as you can. a