Anna

I have, like many people, been very interested in movies, shows and fiction about post apocalyptic speculative scenarios. I saw Anna when it came out; I've thought about it a lot since so I watched it again AND read the book.

This is a different world than we have seen in other iterations of this genre. It is the world, but specifically Sicily, after all the adults over the age of 16 or so not only have died, but also will die. All the kids will age out, and they know it.

It's like a global scale Lord of the Flies. The author of the book was intent on not sentimentalizing the children. They are wild and brutal and feral, they have no sentimentality, no history that they can really remember. They are savage, blunt. Heartbreaking. And beautiful. The cinematography is exquisite; the lighting, the dreamy grunge of everything. The soundtrack and score- impeccable. This is next level story telling, hence it won't be everyone's taste. But you'll see and feel things you never thought you would. It's haunting, and that's probably the highest praise I can give. It stays with you.

Anna has been shot six months before the Covid outbreak which paralyzed the entire world but in the end it wasn't all that bad. In Anna though things take a different turn, allmost all adults die and so you get a story about surviving kids, with some flashbacks where the adults got sick. But it's mostly kids that play the main characters and they did well considering the age of some really young ones. Giulia Dragotto plays Anna and she did very well. Anna is also categorized as a horror but I wouldn't go that far, it's just an interesting story about how kids try to survive in an apocalyptic world. Some nice cinematography as well what made this series stand out and worth watching.

A fascinating plot and amazing kids who acting like today's biggest movie stars. It's like Italy brings back Fellini in a modern way! BRAVO!

Yes it is disturbing, violent. Not easy to watch. But the scenes, the acting, the story are incredible. The last episode show us what love from a mother to a kid to her sibling is all about.

Last episode is the best. The series could've been better at half length. I pity and I'm totally against those so many very young children actors forced to swim amongst that colossal amount of real unhealthy garbage. There ain't no regulations there concerning juveniles' hazardous "jobs" ?!?