So many movies are just “fine.” Movies you sit down, watch, enjoy, and subsequently forget about. You don’t hate them, you don’t love them, they’re just OK. That’s the majority of movies. These are not those movies.
The year is 2019, and people are not heeding the warnings about our planet’s imminent pivot to the apocalypse. Also, not enough of them are watching movies like Julia Hart’s Fast Colour that provide insightful commentary about the state of the world through the superheroic lens we all love so…
In Julia Hart’s Fast Color, to be born with special abilities like the movie’s hero Ruth is to be both powerful and misunderstood, and it’s something that puts Ruth’s life and the fate of the world in dire circumstances.