LYS is a German film school project that was made in 2008. Yet, it is very topical and well structured. The story is of a power plant that has been created that can take energy from the earth. It begins with the power plant having a near melt down and the discovery of a 13 year old girl passed out in its core.
The movie follows the head scientist in the apocolyptic future telling the story of how everything fell apart, it also follows the girl, Lys, in present day as she discovers as she begins to discover she has powers, and as she tries to hide from the scientist men who are after her.
The story is a enviromental cautionary tale, about the dangers of using up so much of the earth energy. Despit some rather cheesy affects I was impressed by how entertaining and suspensful the movie was. However, I did feel it could have been more developed. I understood enough to make sense of what was going on, and find it refreshing to a film to be longer, but it certainly could have added ten or fifteen minutes of more back story to flesh out the plot.
The character of Lys is what drew me in. I always have a soft spot for red heads, but the actress who plays her also has a naturalness that helped carry the film through scenes of her dealing with pretty far out things and also being a 13 year old girl, who likes boys and has a troubled relationship with her mom.
The film is short, hardly an hour, and does have a somewhat film school feel to it, but I still enjoyed it and found in more entertaining and compelling then most Blockbuster multi-million dollar movies.
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