.I give this movie 8/10 because the story is original and well told,the actors definitely held their own and it kept me involved all the way through. it's more than a family living near a highway. The film starts and they are already there and from pieces of conversation you get to know that they've been living there for at least 10 years.you also get to see how simple,normal and even happy their life was before the hwy gets finished.At first ,just like the viewers, they were puzzled,wondering how life will be once the road is complete.Then when it happened,they tried to live their life as if did not happen,the kids will keep on crossing to the other side to go to school until traffic forces them to go under it through a water drain,Mom will try to keep up with gardening and hanging dry her laundry outside until it became impossible.
One night as life became harder and harder for them living by the now very busy and noisy road the husband decided that they must leave but a big fight ensued because Mom wanted to stay, so they ended up staying.Having not much of a choice now the husband became resolute to make the house livable again by cementing all its doors/windows in an attempt to make it noise-free,and that's when things got even worse. While watching this movie I became like a member of the household,worrying for them like they were my own,felt sad when they lost their privacy in their own home because of a traffic jam and even thought I was having problem breathing as they were walled up in the house. Please don't ruin this by asking yourself too many questions and looking for loopholes in the story ,just accept the fact that it's the family's choice to live there- people in real life make way stranger choices than that- and you will be in for quite a ride!
One night as life became harder and harder for them living by the now very busy and noisy road the husband decided that they must leave but a big fight ensued because Mom wanted to stay, so they ended up staying.Having not much of a choice now the husband became resolute to make the house livable again by cementing all its doors/windows in an attempt to make it noise-free,and that's when things got even worse. While watching this movie I became like a member of the household,worrying for them like they were my own,felt sad when they lost their privacy in their own home because of a traffic jam and even thought I was having problem breathing as they were walled up in the house. Please don't ruin this by asking yourself too many questions and looking for loopholes in the story ,just accept the fact that it's the family's choice to live there- people in real life make way stranger choices than that- and you will be in for quite a ride!