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Red Rider
Etheria - Red Rider
episode 1.6
USA 2013/2020
produced by Bryan Hwang for American Film Institute, series producers: Stacy Pippi Hammon, Heidi Honeycutt, Shaked Berenson (executive) for The Horror Collective
directed by Gala Goliani
starring Abigail Wilson, Kojo Asiedu, Billy Mayo, Natalie Shaheen (as [Natalie Pero), Ronnie Clark, Martin Simone, Michael Anthony Rosas, Steve Humphreys, Ted Shred
written by Gala Goliani, music by Samuel Jones, Alexis Marsh
short, TV-series Etheria
review by Mike Haberfelner
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World War III has been fought, with no winners and leaving the world a
wasteland, with any order there once might have been replaced by anarchy.
Adena (Abigail Wilson) is a drifter who wants revenge on two people, Bruce
(Billy Mayo), the man who had once enslaved her, and his son Xavier (Kojo
Asiedu), who had, under his father's guidance, raped and impregnated her.
The first part of her plan to do so is actually fairly easy, she takes
Xavier hostage and barricades herself inside a house with him, waiting for
Xavier's gangmates to fetch Bruce - but while waiting she learns more
about Xavier, learns that he's not the monster she has made him out to be
but a human being with feelings who was as much a slave of his father as
she was, and only forced into raping her. With all that new knowledge,
Adena can't follow through with the second part of her plan anymore, to
kill Xavier in front of his father. But that loses her Xavier as a
bargaining chip as well, and how can she stand up to Bruce and his goons
now? Nice post-apocalyptic thriller that in many ways resembles
a western, both in terms of aesthetics and narrative, and has a roughness
that serves both genres well - and yet at the heart of it, Red Rider
is more of a morality tale, one that questions the very concept of revenge
at the center of the story, and the eye-for-an-eye mentality as such (that
might just as well have led to World War III that destroyed the world of
the film but is never properly explained - not that it needed to be). That
said though, this is still a tense thriller held together by a tight
directorial effort and solid performances - but a thriller that might also
make you think ...
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