What makes Scavengers Reign special (to me) is that it reignites a largely absent, primordial fear of nature.

There are things in what I'll call the "outside" world that I suppose scare me, but not in the truest sense. These things elicit caution, demand awareness and conscientiousness, but I don't think there's anything that I'm properly paralyzed by when I think of the outdoors or nature.

Scavengers Reign reminds me that it's not so much what constitutes "nature," but rather…

One way I approach appreciation of film, or art in general is to understand who it was written for. What audience is this trying to appease to. What kind of person enjoys this. By exploring that, in an attempt to empathize with that person/audience (even if the film is created solely for the creator themselves), I can hope to better appreciate or enjoy the film, when maybe I wouldn't be able to otherwise. I'm in it to enjoy these things…

The great stories that form the foundation of what most of Western civilization’s culture is built upon were largely ones that were passed on from person to person through oral tradition until finally being dedicated to script and written down. Stories such as The Odyssey, The Iliad, and likely many of Shakespeare’s plays -- all we know of these works is what was made permanent and then reproduced exactly year after year. No variation exists now and the oral tradition…