article_snippet.sent: But there has been one shining light cutting through the fog of critical hyperbole:
article_snippet.sent: Houses are burning and things are being torn down," he says, "and within that there are families trying to hold on to Houses homes.
article_snippet.sent: For Houses it has become a nightmare
article_snippet.sent: The title itself alludes to a once thriving community now displaced, The title itself homes at the bottom of a reservoir built with little concern for the residents -- man-made interference with untold social repercussions.
article_snippet.sent: On screen he paints a nihilistic image of wanton destruction; torched properties and bulldozers jostling for our attention amid acts of extreme human violence -- sometimes self-inflicted.
article_snippet.sent: However there are signs of humanity and regeneration amongst the chaos, on camera and off.
article_snippet.sent: For the film's young protagonist, every raid on an unoccupied house offers copper piping waiting to be recast and ultimately reclaimed.
article_snippet.sent: We want people to know that dereliction is happening there, but that it's not only what is happening there," dereliction argues.