Lore is a drama set during the holocaust, but with a different perspective: instead of it focusing on, for example, Jews in a concentration camp, or on the Nazi officers, this is about the children of an SS officer who, along with their mother, gets interred. So the kids are on their own and have to make their way across a country practically to get to another relative. This is while the nation is under war and everything is devastating. In other words, it's Come and See, though not quite to that extent (but then what could be?)
Lore is, for lack of a better word than I can think of so this sums it up, is depressing. You feel drained as the minutes go by and see the devastation go by, though with so little relief that catharsis is lost. It's so unrelentingly bleak, and with such unlikable characters for the most part that it gets exhausting after a while. It sticks to its convictions and it has some harrowing poetry with its shots, but the results just leave you so drained - and not with the sort of catharsis that comes with The Road or Grave with the Fireflies (which this feels like a hybrid of in immediate post WW2 Germany).
Or to put it another way, it makes Germany Year Zero look like a Disney cartoon.
Lore is, for lack of a better word than I can think of so this sums it up, is depressing. You feel drained as the minutes go by and see the devastation go by, though with so little relief that catharsis is lost. It's so unrelentingly bleak, and with such unlikable characters for the most part that it gets exhausting after a while. It sticks to its convictions and it has some harrowing poetry with its shots, but the results just leave you so drained - and not with the sort of catharsis that comes with The Road or Grave with the Fireflies (which this feels like a hybrid of in immediate post WW2 Germany).
Or to put it another way, it makes Germany Year Zero look like a Disney cartoon.