Online Movie Review of Wrecked (2011)

As one of the latest movie releases these days, Wrecked , a drama film – may distract most of the audiences’ attention for a while for its “different” kind of story and filming. It is not the typical film produced by most (or, all) of the Hollywood film production companies, it is obviously an indie alias independent film made for sake of film, not money. It has the idealism of its own on how to make the story, direct the actors, even choose the film locations.

The story is so simple without any complicated plot or weird narrative style, yet confusing if the audiences do not follow the film by heart. It is about a man, an unnamed person played by Oscar-winning actor Adrien Brody, who gets a car crash in somewhere unknown without remembering the other passangers. Injured and being in a place that he does not know at all, the condition of this man is worsened by his losing memory. He does not remember anything, including his own identity, and does not know anything. He even has to free himself from a hallucination of an unknown woman, also unnamed played by Caroline Dhavernas, who keeps coming to him and taunting him.

Wrecked only spots how the main character here has to survive in the middle of a steep cliff, the unknown place where he is, including eating bugs around him. No doubt that the film only focuses on one character and show the audiences how this man survive, how his character react on the accident, what he does then and what will happen next. It is all about the man and his survival, nothing else.

The film director Michael Greespan really put a lot of efforts to make the car crash the subsequent happenings look real. He carefully picked up the film locations, and ended up choosing a cliff in Vancouver Island. Though the story is not developing at all and the film movement is stuck there in the main idea of survival and losing one’s memory, the somehow real condition of every thing there which was directed by Greenspan has to be appreciated. Even the make-up really helped to make the man here looks horrible.