Lovely, Dark, and Deep (2023)
The film begins with a quote from John Muir: "And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul." The words fade out and the scene becomes one at a park ranger's station. As voices on the radio go through a morning check in, Ranger Varney emerges from his small cabin, and tapes a piece of paper to the 'Ranger In' post with an ominous message written on it: "I owe this land a body." Ignoring calls from the radio for him, he disappears into the forest. It then cuts to various scenes of a deep dark forest, which become slightly more tilted until completely upside down. The camera then zooms up (into the ground) and the title of the movie appears in the cold black earth: "Lovely, Dark, and Deep."Lennon (Georgina Campbell) is driving her car through the forest at night, listening to a radio station where people are talking about all the mysterious disappearances of campers in national parks, and how park rangers seem to do nothing about it. She stops her car to grab something from her glove box, and when she looks back up a black female deer is standing in the middle of the road looking at her. When Lennon looks down and back up again, the doe has mysteriously vanished.At the main ranger's station, Lennon and some other rangers are getting ready for a meeting. The others, not