Set in the future, when a major drought has turned Earth into a wasteland giant. The dust was thick coated on the barren and lonely planet. Ernest Holm live in this harsh land with the children, Jerome (Kodi Smit-McPhee) and Mary. He defended his farm against the bandits, doing the plumbing. But Mary';s boyfriend FLEM Lever had other thoughts. He wants to take the Ernest for himself and finds ways to get it.
The setting is futuristic, but the themes are ancient in "Young Ones," Jake Paltrow's eccentric merger of frontier western and science-fiction gadgetry.
An awkward, heady mixture of science-fiction, soap opera, western and Greek tragedy but the quality of the performances and the cinematography render it better than you might have feared.
There are some intriguing concepts at play here, and a striking visual style amid the harsh arid landscapes, yet the slow-burning story boils down to simplistic elements of revenge that feel familiar.
