Weekly Film Analysis: The Forest (2016)

                                                    

This film was a 2016 American supernatural horror film directed by Jason Zada and written by Ben Katai. The theme of this film was sisterhood, love, trust, deceit, death, etc. This film was produced by Al-film and distributed by Gremercy Pictures. The cinematographer of this film was Mattias Troelstrup, who used his skill to create an illusion for the audience to understand what the protagonist was experiencing in the forest. This film was based in the United States and was in English too. The budget of the film was $10 million and had a box office of $37.6 million. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a rating of 10%, based on 116 reviews, with an average rating of 4.1/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "The Forest offers Natalie Dormer a few chances to showcase her range in a dual role, but they aren't enough to offset the fact that the movie's simply not all that scary.

The protagonist is a female, who is looking for her sister in a forest. Her sister has been missing for a couple of months, everyone assumed she was dead, but Sara knew she was still alive. The key theme shown her was hope, as she never gave up looking for her sister and still believed that she was alive in that treacherous forest. Furthermore, the other similar theme shown here in a family, the forest created an illusion which made Sara see her dead parents alive and to forcefully slit her wrist. This caused Sara to die in the forest, inflicting the burden on her sister Jess who made it out the forest until she realised Sara went to search for her in the forest. And realised she died looking for her.