Review of Red Knot

I guess this one was never released to the major or minor medias. I found it on Hulu and was tempted enough to watch it.

Cinematography is stunningly good. The storyline is straight forward without complicated schemes involved. Apparently, that is the problem. There was in need for some melodramatic scenes to make points. It's too clean and fluid. Some details of main characters' past should have been prevailed into the current. It's not bad or anything but it's not impressed enough to become memorable.

I supposed the director tried to use Antarctica as a backdrop to display human behaviors. However, I felt the whole story had little to do with the location. They were a young and married couple. Disagreements and arguments happened just like others at that age. They were not exceptional in any ways with or without being in Antarctica. They could have been arguing on the busy street in New York City as well. The locations of where they were would not matter. That was also the reason why elaborating plots needed to avoid the commonalities.

The visual is good. It has the quality of documentary films. It just needed some booze.