Review: The Trouble With Nature

This was a tricky one to introduce as I'm still trying to work it out.

The film doesn't give much backstory and instead we are dumped straight into a moment that defined an Irish philosopher's life.

The look of the Alps and European wooded areas certainly made it watchable. But a story about a philosopher going out into the field to embrace his own concept, and his having a hard to accept it made it interesting. However, I wasn't sure why.

The ego and ambitions of the lead that was well played by Anthony Langdon gave a nice insight into the thinking of upper-class politicians of that time period. Seeing him attempting to cope with the environment and the culture made it engaging and that nice 'fish out of water' feel of it. But there was still that air of strangeness that I couldn't quite grasp.

The support of Nathalia Acevedo was nice to see as it seemed she was the person that Langdon's character wanted to to be.

All in all, there were enough interesting aspects to this story that saw me give it a pass. I can see me getting into this more and more on multiple viewings. So it will be interesting to see how this film ages.
There is an interesting story in here, the general look is great and the films biggest selling point and the two performances were nicely done.

This is definitely not a film for everyone. But if you give it time and patience, there's something in here to be engaged with.

Rating: 7/10