Wreck (2020)

Mercifully short movie about a middle aged woman on a mission to deliver a briefcase whose partner accidentally crashes the car and dies. She’s left in the woods with her foot stuck under the wreck.  Her cranial functioning is limited since she spends several days lying there without making any effort to escape.

It should be an easy fix. The car is in the woods, the ground is dirt, and dirt can be dug with your hands, a stick, anything in your pocket, or the shoe on your free foot. Yet she lies there hoping someone will help her.  

At one point it rains and the ground gets muddy, which would make it easier to get her foot out. But still no thoughts of escape infiltrate her brain. As time passes, she even contemplates cutting off her foot rather than using the knife to loosen the dirt around her foot.  I wish I were joking about that.

After a few days, she makes a slight effort to escape and this is when the monster shows up. What monster, you ask?  The one that looks like it’s made out of those fuzzy foot shaped rugs from the 1970s. It’s a very silly looking monster and would more be confusing than scary.  

When she does manage to get out from under the car, she runs off as if her foot is absolutely fine. Not even a slight limp on this human wonder.  Her brain’s not great, but that foot must be made out of iron since there’s no injury or any issue with circulation after being crushed for two days.

There is a lot of padding in this film. Many scenes go nowhere or have awkward transitions to show a passage of time. And just when you think she can’t get any worse, she tries to hide in the basement of a barn and turns on the light.  Hiding 101 is never turn on the light if you don’t want to be found. 

Whatever will she do. How can she ever get out.

Still stuck. Maybe foot removal is the answer. 

Monster!… or a rug or a muppet