House falls apart in less than a year?
Maybe in 10 years. Not as depicted in this film.
shareThere was already a hole on part of the roof with blue tarp over it.
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MovieChat Forums > Into the Forest (2016) Discussion > House falls apart in less than a year?
Ellen Page's character remarks early in the film about the father needing to finish the house, so it was probably haphazardly built to begin with.
shareThe house was an insane element in the whole movie!
On the one hand it was so gorgeous that it was distracting: who wouldn't rather be in that house without utilities than in many another house with them?
And yet the parts that weren't just plain gorgeous were falling apart, and what kind of builder wouldn't put emphasis on the roof? Because of the leakage there was black mold which is very very nasty and of course highly threatening to a newborn especially.
I see this as the logical reason they do in the house but I think it was also symbolic of their having amassed enough skills to tough it out in the forest, which is the whole theme.
Too many open windows. I don't know why some people choose to live in or at least have all of their interiors exposed to the outside world. It let's potential criminals know who is there and when, and what you have they might want to take.
shareIt's an American thing. With so much space and wealth, we like to show off.
shareOh please. So there is a tarp on the roof. The house is beautiful and couldn't have been THAT poorly constructed. I live in a 106 year old Victorian in Northern California. We have a few places where the wet gets in, but our house is in pretty good shape. Nowhere near the gorgeous house in the film.
My husband is a commercial contractor and specializes in insurance losses, fire and water damage. I made him watch this to see if he thought it reasonable for the house to crumble like that and he said that's unless it had been hit by a rocky mudslide or huge falling tree, it was ridiculous. Even if one part of the house had collapsed, if the girls were smart they could figure out how to block a portion off to survive in. It would be better than a flippin 6 foot square dirt floor shelter in the woods.
Et lux perpetua luceat eis
You and your husband need to get lives.
Anyway, Eva didn't want to be around all that black mold and all those negative memories.
Well said, Indie.
Ironically, my house is now also 106 years old (built in 1914) and the roof is just fine thanks.
Of course, I've had two new roofs put on in the 38 years that I've lived here.
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Like others pointed out, the house (and roof in particular) may have been in bad shape to start with, and their dad simply didn't get a chance to fix it up like he'd planned.
Plus, it was a very forested area and I kept noticing that as time progressed, the amount of crud on the roof built up. In the Pacific Northwest (which this area reminded me of), moss builds up on houses like you wouldn't believe. If you let it go too long, it will get under the shingles, lifting them up and creating weak areas. Plus, the gutters on the house looked entirely clogged with debris which creates problems along the eaves and you get moisture intrusion there.
Before the whole thing caved in, they made a point of showing water leaking here and there inside. Depending on how it was constructed and the age, it's not entirely weird that the moisture rotted away a crucial truss or even a ridge beam.
Or heck, maybe they had carpenter ants/termites that helped it go from bad to worse a lot faster.
In other words, don't discount the movie because the house went downhill so fast. I felt like, yeah, that could happen.
They just don't make'em like they used to.
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