Episode 298: M - Beyond the wasteland

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The blurb

Marko, shielded by his father's iron grip, must face a shattered world shrouded in silence and peril along with a boy with Down Syndrome.

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Beyond the Wasteland follows two kids who form an unbreakable bond in a post-apocalyptic world overrun by zombies.

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The world has been ravaged by a pandemic. Alone and outside the safety of the forest, Marko faces a shattered world shrouded in silence and danger.

5.8/10 on IMDB which is very good and 3/5 from the UK Film Review

And it is from Macedonia and you know what that means dear listener it makes it the 40th country we have covered movies from.

Set in the woods after a global pandemic turned virtually everyone zeke a 8-10 year old Marko lives with his dad in the woods. It had a lot of surviving with dad in the woods. Practical survival stuff. Hunting. Traps. Silence. It felt a little at times like the movie Here Alone, but then with the whole Huckleberry Finn meets The Peanut Butter Falcon but, you know, with zombies and in Northern Macedonia.

Innocent and endearing. I felt like the sections of JoJo Rabbit when JoJo and Elsa are hiding together after JoJo's mother was hung. But with plenty of menace from the overbearing and quite frightening father, the infected, the marauders, and the soldiers. The hunt for mom, and going to the hospital felt like Apocalypse Z: The Beginning and the end was very tense for me, as you just didn't know what they were going to do.

In the end this was a very watchable 6/10. I liked it!