The difference between a finely told story and an incoherent blur of ideas is often the same thing that separates a leisurely country drive from a terrifying race along back roads: a matter of pace.
In a Savage Land, a film by Australian director Bill Bennett (Kiss or Kill), is a movie about a remote society in which time stands still, and the people whose lives are changed by it. But because Bennett is trying to cram so much into a two-hour film, it jerks along in fits and starts and passes like a half-remembered vacation.
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