It would be easy to write Survival Skills off as a cheap nostalgia bid or a wacky experiment, and it would have been easy just to be that. Still, writer and director Quinn Armstrong’s script takes the story to some uncomfortably dark places and pits Jim’s desire to help against our society and all the ways it fails the people it tries to protect.
Link: https://awesomefriday.ca/2020/08/fantasia-review-survival-skills-is-way-more-than-just-a-weird-vhs-nostalgia-trip/
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