Paul W.S. Anderson's film, In the Lost Lands, merges post-apocalyptic visuals with medieval fantasy elements, showcasing surreal landscapes, witches, and giants. The film's striking storybook quality is crafted with intentional visual choices, such as maps tracking character journeys and steampunk timekeeping devices. Unlike Anderson's usual visceral action style, this film presents a more abstract atmosphere. Critics often view his past films as a blend of savagery and beauty, but here, the focus shifts to creating transporting, almost dreamlike scenes, wrapped within captivating, twisted fairy tale aesthetics.
Anderson regularly cuts to a map showing us where the characters are on their journey, a device he also used in the Resident Evil movies.
Each shot looks like a page out of a cursed tome of twisted, postmodern fairy tales, the images forbidding and slightly abstract.
Anderson loves visceral, gut-punch action, and in the past he's brought to fairly generic stories an invigorating sense of menace and savagery.
The whole thing is marvelously unreal. You might find yourself wanting to lose yourself in it.
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