NiuNiu - Film Fest Review
The film is a powerful narrative encompassing a theme that many people can identify with.

Two men, one recently out of the army, walk a trail to a mountain. Uphill and downhill, cool breezes in the shadows of the trees, shouts from the mountaintop. They go hiking and share their regretful love stories.
The film is a powerful narrative encompassing a theme that many people can identify with.
Gritty and bleak are the best words to describe this film. There’s nothing happy about it.
A family drama is woven with quiet yet powerful forces of words and nature.
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This feels like the creative team wanted to make a body horror film, but the studio wanted to make another generic blockbuster.
There were too many irrelevant parts that could have been shortened, and too many characters that didn't advance the plot. Either way, some things didn't add up. This was just another played out plot with little, if any, originality in it. By the end of the film, I wasn't happy that she finally got her freedom, I was happy that it was finally over.